By DENNIS WYATT 209 Living Thomas Wolfe never would have written his book “You Can’t Go Home Again” if he had grown up in Placer County. The reason in simple — the bliss that is playing in Placer County has never diminished in time nor is there a need to embellish its attributes or pan what it offers. Placer County rises from the Sacramento Valley floor where you will find rice fields, pheasants, and Thunder Valley Casino & Resort, climbs through the foothills laden with small scale orchards with some of the sweetest fruit around as well as traces of a storied Gold Rush history and peaks with Sierra grandeur reflected in crystal blue Lake Tahoe guarded by world famous Squaw Valley.
VALLEY FLOOR TO LAKE TAHOE Placer County offers a wide array of things to do & see