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VALLEY FLOOR TO LAKE TAHOE Placer County offers a wide array of things to do & see
Auburn Courthouse
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.