Come up to the Nakoma Golf Resort at Gold Mountain for an unbeatable Sierra golf experience. The course opens May 1 and is in good shape. With the beauty of Spring and the sensational mountain and forest vistas, your score almost won't matter. Almost.

Understand and improve your game from 100 yards away from the green. Your score will improve by attending this camp! At the Chalet View Lodge between Portola and Graeagle. Call 530-263-1202 for information.

The first concert, beginning at 1PM in the Graeagle Community Hall, features local favorites Dr. Bach and His Jazz Practitoners and Polly's Hot Peppers. Then May 18 brings Midnight Rose and Black Tuesday, also at 1PM in the community hall. The venue moves to the Graeagle Picnic Grounds by June 22 in what will no doubt be spectacular weather. Call Jim Rogers at 530-836-4523 for more information ... and tell him "Gold Mountain Home" sent you.

American River Hatchery has begun restocking Lake Davis with Eagle lake rainbow trout.

Kahurangi (Cloak from Heaven) is New Zealand's only full-time Maori Dance Theatre of professional caliber to maintain a consistent presence in North America for the past thirteen years.

Kahurangi was formed in 1983 to provide cultural, recreational, educational and employment opportunities for graduates of Takitimu Performing Arts School, based in Hastings, New Zealand, which has established itself as a pioneer in the field of Maori Performing Arts and was the first tertiary institution to offer a full-time under-graduate degree in Maori Performing Arts. Since 1985, Kahurangi has presented over 2000 performances in New Zealand, Australia, China, Singapore, Mexico, India and Malaysia along with the United States of America and Canada.

Call (530) 283-3402 for information.

The museum has over 35 locomotives and 80 cars of various types. Unlike many other museums, visitors to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum soon discover that this is a hands-on facility where they are encouraged to climb up in the cabs of locomotives, sit in the engineer's seats, and browse through the many cabooses and passenger cars that are on display.

The WPRM is one of the few places in the world where you can operate a real diesel locomotive (reservations required). The 37 acre site includes a 220 foot long, 16,000 square foot diesel shop that was used from 1954 until 1974 as well as two and a half miles of trackage primarily consisting of a balloon track and various yard tracks.

Whitehawk Ranch Golf Club is operated as a public golf facility, offering one of the finest golfing experiences in California's High Sierra. The Golf Club is open for Whitehawk Ranch Property Owners and the general public. New for 2008, Annual membership will be opened up to non-property owners for the first time.

The Feather River Inn is undergoing an extensive renovation project that will once again return it back to its grandeur. Throughout the coming months, featherriverinn.com will chronicle this historic and unprecedented resurgence with photos and news articles, feature stories, photo essays, and interactive presentations.

The Feather River Inn is located approximately 8 miles from Gold Mountain.