Audio tour (South) Wolf Creek Trail with Gary Griffith

My name is Rose Murphy, and I'm a biographer for the Grass Valley Museum. I am Lisa Redfern. I'm on the board of Sierra College Press. Rose and I, we're both members of the Nevada County Historical Society and historical fiction authors.

Before starting down into Boston Ravine or Wolf Creek Trail. We recommend downloading the tour in a place that has good Wi-Fi or internet.

Wolf Creek flows downhill through Grass Valley from the Brunswick area along Joerschke Drive. It's covered in some places by Highway 49. You can see it along East Main and Tinloy Streets. It passes the Safeway parking lot, goes along Mill Street, and under the freeway to right here.

In that stretch, historically, there were butchers, sawmills, mines, and other industrial businesses. European immigrants didn't give much thought about throwing waste into the creek.

By the time we wised-up, there was a lot of cleanup to do. The Wolf Creek Community Alliance can take well-deserved credit for their work in that area.

To see some of the pictures that I'm talking about for the industrial areas along Wolf Creek, click on the title of this stop to the next page where you can see the pictures. Each stop has a few pictures to look at.

This tour with Gary Griffith, president of the Wolf Creek Community Alliance, talks about Creek preservation projects and philosophies that work towards community health. Community being people, plants, animals, soil, water.

Today, with the exception of really hot days when the sewage treatment plant is aromatic, I think that this trail is one of the loveliest places to walk around Grass Valley. It's fairly level, is paved, and shaded.

From the parking lot of the Mining Museum, the Wolf Creek Trail is one mile out and one mile back, about 4000 steps.