bottle digging
California
305 researched sites0 legal to collect
Agua Fria first Mariposa County seatGhost town · Permission required
›Agua Mansa New Mexican colony siteGhost town · Gray area
›Alameda: Crown Beach / Neptune era (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Alamitos Bay old shorelineTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Albany Bulb (old landfill point)Tidal foreshore · Gray area
›Albion, CA: Albion River mouth lumber portRiverbank · Gray area
›AlleghanyOld dump ground · Permission required
›Alvarado, CA: Alameda Creek sugar-and-salt town on the bayTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Amador CityOld dump ground · Permission required
›Anaheim Landing, Seal Beach (mostly off-limits)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Anaheim: 1857 German colonyOld dump ground · Permission required
›Anderson, CA: upper Sacramento River townRiverbank · Gray area
›Angels Camp southern mines townOld dump ground · Permission required
›Antioch / Pittsburg waterfrontRiverbank · Gray area
›Aptos, CA: Monterey Bay mill and resort landingTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Arcata, CA: Arcata Bay head of Humboldt BayTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Auburn CA: Placer gold townOld dump ground · Permission required
›Auburn Old Town priviesOld dump ground · Permission required
›Avila Beach / Port San Luis wharf eraTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Baden, CA: South Bay stockyard flat on San Francisco BayTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Ballarat CA: Panamint supply townOld dump ground · Permission required
›Ballarat townsiteTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Barnwell (Manvel) desert railheadGhost town · Gray area
›Belleville Holcomb Valley gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Benicia Arsenal fringe / Army Point (do not dig)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Benicia Glass Beach & Southampton flatsTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Beveridge Inyo Mountains gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Birds Landing: Montezuma Slough wharfTidal mudflat · Permission required
›Black Point: Petaluma River mouth bridgesTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Bodega Bay: Smith Brothers landing frontageTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Bodie SHP (do not collect)Old dump ground · Prohibited, look only
›Bodie townsiteTidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Bolinas: Wharf Rd / Lighter Wharf frontageTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Bridgeport CAOld dump ground · Permission required
›Butte CityRiverbank · Permission required
›Cabrillo Beach / old harbor tipTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Calico (restricted)Old dump ground · Restricted
›Calistoga: Brannan resort + Chinatown reachRiverbank · Gray area
›CamptonvilleOld dump ground · Permission required
›Carson Hill Mother Lode gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Caspar, CA: Caspar Creek doghole mill coveTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Castroville, CA: Salinas mouth at Elkhorn SloughTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Cayucos, CA: Estero Bay pier townTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Cement company town ruinsGhost town · Permission required
›Cerro Gordo (permission-only, proven)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Cerro Gordo townsiteLake shore · Permission required
›Cherokee hydraulic diamond campOld dump ground · Permission required
›ChicoOld dump ground · Permission required
›China Beach (old fishing camp cove)Tidal foreshore · Restricted
›China CampTidal mudflat · Prohibited, look only
›Chinese Camp (semi-abandoned 1849 town)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Chinese Camp backlotsTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Clements, CA: upper Mokelumne River rail-and-river townRiverbank · Gray area
›Cloverdale, CA: head-of-valley Russian River townRiverbank · Gray area
›Coleman City placer gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Collinsville (wildcard)Tidal mudflat · Permission required
›Colusa river bendRiverbank · Permission required
›Cooley Landing / Ravenswood (mostly look)Tidal mudflat · Restricted
›CopperopolisOld dump ground · Permission required
›Cordelia (Bridgeport): slough wharf townTidal mudflat · Permission required
›Corte Madera Creek corridor: Kentfield to the mouth (SUPER AREA)Tidal mudflat · Gray area
›CoultervilleOld dump ground · Permission required
›Courtland riverfront (Delta)Riverbank · Permission required
›Crab Cove / old Neptune Beach resortTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Crockett: Starr Mill / C&H waterfrontTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Crows Landing, CA: San Joaquin River steamboat landingRiverbank · Gray area
›Cuyamaca City Stonewall Mine gold townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Darwin townsiteTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Davenport CA: Davenport Beach, art glass studio tailingsTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Dedrick Globe Mine campGhost town · Gray area
›Denverton (Nurse's Landing) grain sloughTidal mudflat · Permission required
›Diamond SpringsOld dump ground · Permission required
›Dog Town eastern Sierra gold diggingsGhost town · Gray area
›Donahue Landing ghost terminus (Petaluma River)Riverbank · Permission required
›Downieville + Sierra County campsOld dump ground · Permission required
›Drawbridge (Alviso)Tidal mudflat · Prohibited, look only
›Duncan's Landing / Duncans Point (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Duncans Mills (Russian River)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Dutch FlatOld dump ground · Permission required
›Eagle Mountain Kaiser iron-mine company townGhost town · Permission required
›East Bay shore off old Hayward/San Lorenzo dumpsTidal mudflat · Gray area
›El Dorado (Mud Springs)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Eliza site / lower Feather bars below MarysvilleRiverbank · Gray area
›Embarcadero de Sonoma (head of navigation)Riverbank · Gray area
›Emerald Bay underwater trail, Lake TahoeDive site · Prohibited, look only
›Emeryville/Albany/Berkeley flatsTidal mudflat · Prohibited, look only
›Etna Scott Valley brewery townRiverbank · Permission required
›Eureka: Humboldt Bay waterfrontTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Falk redwood lumber-mill townGhost town · Restricted
›Ferndale: Victorian creamery villageOld dump ground · Permission required
›FiddletownOld dump ground · Permission required
›Firebaugh, CA: Firebaugh's Ferry on the San JoaquinRiverbank · Gray area
›Fisk Mill Cove (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Folsom, CA: American River gold-and-rail townRiverbank · Gray area
›ForesthillOld dump ground · Permission required
›Fort Jones Scott Valley trade townRiverbank · Permission required
›Fort Ross Cove (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Freeman Junction stagecoach stationGhost town · Gray area
›Freeport: 1862 rail-river transfer townRiverbank · Gray area
›Freestone-Occidental narrow-gauge corridorOld dump ground · Permission required
›Garlock stamp-mill townGhost town · Gray area
›Georgetown CAOld dump ground · Permission required
›Gerstle Cove / Salt Point landing (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Geyserville, CA: Russian River rail-and-resort townRiverbank · Gray area
›Glass Beach (9th Street)Tidal foreshore · Gray area
›Glen Cove (Carquinez Strait backwater)Tidal foreshore · Gray area
›Glen Ellen: SVRR resort terminus creek reachRiverbank · Permission required
›Glorietta Bay old hotel shorelineTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Grass ValleyOld dump ground · Permission required
›Grayson Landing (San Joaquin)Riverbank · Gray area
›Greenwater copper boom campGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›GrimesRiverbank · Permission required
›GrovelandOld dump ground · Permission required
›Grub Gulch gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Gualala: Mill Bend / river mouthRiverbank · Restricted
›Guerneville / Rio Nido / Guernewood barsRiverbank · Gray area
›Hamilton City, CA: Sacramento River sugar-factory townRiverbank · Gray area
›Hamlet ghost siding, north Tomales Bay (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Harmony Borax Works twenty-mule-team campGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Hart Castle Mountains gold campGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Haystack Landing (lower Petaluma River)Riverbank · Gray area
›Hedges (Tumco) Cargo Muchacho gold townGhost town · Restricted
›Hills Ferry: head of San Joaquin navigationRiverbank · Gray area
›Hites Cove Merced River gold mine campGhost town · Restricted
›Hood / Clarksburg reach (Delta)Riverbank · Gray area
›Hornbrook, CA: Klamath River railroad townRiverbank · Gray area
›Hornitos: Mexican-era plaza townOld dump ground · Permission required
›Horsetown Clear Creek gold-rush townGhost town · Gray area
›Indian Gulch (Santa Cruz) gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Inverness: 1889 resort pier eraTidal foreshore · Gray area
›IoneOld dump ground · Permission required
›Iowa Hill divide hydraulic campOld dump ground · Gray area
›Isleton / Walnut Grove riverfront sloughsRiverbank · Permission required
›Ivanpah Clark Mountain silver campGhost town · Gray area
›Jackson CA: Mother Lode townOld dump ground · Permission required
›JamestownOld dump ground · Permission required
›Jenner: river-mouth mill and resort hamletTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Julian gold campOld dump ground · Permission required
›Kearsarge high Sierra silver campGhost town · Gray area
›Kelso Union Pacific depot townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Knights Ferry: Stanislaus crossingRiverbank · Permission required
›Knights Landing grain wharfRiverbank · Permission required
›LA downtown privy districtOld dump ground · Permission required
›La Panza placer gold boom townGhost town · Permission required
›La Playa / old whaling & hide beachTidal foreshore · Gray area
›La PorteOld dump ground · Permission required
›Lakeport: Library Park steamer frontageLake shore · Gray area
›Lakeville: east-bank steamer stop (Petaluma River)Riverbank · Permission required
›Leadfield 1920s promotion boomtownGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Llano del Rio socialist colony ruinsGhost town · Gray area
›Locke-Walnut Grove foreshore (shoreline only)Riverbank · Restricted
›Lockeford, CA: Mokelumne River crossing townRiverbank · Gray area
›Los Alamos CAOld dump ground · Permission required
›Lotus/Coloma fringe (private)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Lower Bear River: Johnson's Ranch reachRiverbank · Permission required
›Lower Lake: Cache Creek outlet townRiverbank · Permission required
›Lower Yuba bars (Hwy 20 / Parks Bar reach)Riverbank · Gray area
›Maine Prairie: drowned grain port (Cache Slough)Riverbank · Gray area
›Malakoff / North Bloomfield townsiteTidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›MariposaOld dump ground · Permission required
›Marshall: rail shore town, Tomales BayTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Martinez old waterfront flatsTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Marysville CA: Feather River supply cityRiverbank · Permission required
›Marysville: Feather/Yuba confluence banksRiverbank · Permission required
›McNear brickyard shoreline, Pt San PedroTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Mendocino, CA: Big River mouth doghole lumber portRiverbank · Gray area
›Mentryville oil-boom company townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Mercuryville quicksilver rush townGhost town · Gray area
›MeridianRiverbank · Permission required
›Michigan Bluff hydraulic terrace townOld dump ground · Gray area
›Middletown: stage-road creek washesRiverbank · Permission required
›Midland gypsum company townGhost town · Gray area
›Mill Valley: Old Mill creek washdownRiverbank · Restricted
›Millerton townsite, Tomales Bay (look only)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Mirabel Park / Forestville (Mark West mouth)Riverbank · Permission required
›Mokelumne Hill southern mines campOld dump ground · Permission required
›Monte Cristo placer gold campGhost town · Gray area
›Monte Rio: resort beach and trestle reachRiverbank · Gray area
›Monterey (adobe district caution)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Monticello drowned town, Lake Berryessa (look only)Lake shore · Prohibited, look only
›Moss Landing / Elkhorn mouth (tight windows)Tidal foreshore · Restricted
›MurphysOld dump ground · Permission required
›Napa River flats below downtownRiverbank · Gray area
›Napa: China Point / First St bridge reachRiverbank · Restricted
›Nevada City / Grass Valley ravine dumpsOld dump ground · Permission required
›New Idria quicksilver-mine ghost townGhost town · Gray area
›Newport: McFadden Wharf / bay landingTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Nicolaus: Feather River gold-rush stopRiverbank · Gray area
›Niles, CA: Alameda Creek at the canyon mouthTidal mudflat · Gray area
›North San Juan (hydraulic-era)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Nortonville coal-mining ghost townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Oakland Estuary: Union Point / Brooklyn BasinTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Old Bayshore dump flatsTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Old Chinatown & saloon privy districtRiverbank · Permission required
›Old Deer Creek backlotsTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Old Delta river-town waterfrontRiverbank · Permission required
›Old Mare Island navy waterfrontRiverbank · Restricted
›Old Mother Lode backlotsTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Old Rio Vista waterfrontRiverbank · Permission required
›Old Selby smelter shorelineTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Old Town / Auburn Ravine backlotsTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Old gold-camp privy districtTidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Old pier / Anaheim LandingTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Old riverfront backlotsRiverbank · Gray area
›Old riverfront privy districtRiverbank · Restricted
›Old wheat-port waterfrontTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Onion Valley gold rush supply campGhost town · Gray area
›Oroville Chinatown levee edgeRiverbank · Permission required
›Pacific Grove: Point Alones village (protected)Tidal foreshore · Prohibited, look only
›Panamint City townsiteTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Petaluma River: turning basin to McNearRiverbank · Gray area
›Picacho: Colorado River gold port (do not collect)Riverbank · Prohibited, look only
›Placerville (Hangtown) 1850s landfillOld dump ground · Permission required
›Point Arena: doghole port + 1906 burnOld dump ground · Permission required
›Point Isabel / old bayfront tipTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Port Ballona / Del Rey Lagoon edgesTidal mudflat · Restricted
›Port Costa wharf frontageTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Port Hueneme, CA: open-coast wharf townTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Princeton CARiverbank · Permission required
›Providence Bonanza King silver campGhost town · Gray area
›Purissima coastal farm villageGhost town · Gray area
›Quincy CAOld dump ground · Permission required
›Ragtown Buckeye district tent campGhost town · Gray area
›Randsburg (caution)Old dump ground · Permission required
›Randsburg backlotsTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Red Bluff CA: upper-Sacramento head of navigationRiverbank · Permission required
›Red Bluff: head of navigationRiverbank · Permission required
›Red Dog hydraulic-mining gold campGhost town · Restricted
›Redwood Creek embarcaderoTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Richardson Bay old waterfrontTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Richmond: Stege Marsh / Lauritzen ChannelTidal mudflat · Prohibited, look only
›Riverside citrus colonyOld dump ground · Permission required
›Rough and Ready secessionist campOld dump ground · Permission required
›Ryan borax company campGhost town · Permission required
›RydeRiverbank · Permission required
›SF: Islais Creek / Bayview fringeTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Sacramento River west bank (Broderick) opposite Old SacRiverbank · Gray area
›Sacramento: Sutter's Landing bars (American River)Riverbank · Restricted
›San AndreasOld dump ground · Permission required
›San Anselmo-Fairfax creek corridorRiverbank · Permission required
›San Bernardino: 1851 colonyOld dump ground · Permission required
›San Diego 1880s boom corridor (East County)Old dump ground · Permission required
›San Joaquin City gold-rush river townGhost town · Permission required
›San Juan Capistrano (watch)Old dump ground · Permission required
›San Luis ObispoOld dump ground · Permission required
›San Quentin Point / Village cove flatsTidal mudflat · Gray area
›San Rafael Canal mouth flatsTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Santa BarbaraOld dump ground · Permission required
›Santa CruzOld dump ground · Permission required
›Santa PaulaOld dump ground · Permission required
›Santa Rosa: 1906 burn layerOld dump ground · Permission required
›Sausalito Old Town waterfrontTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Scotia, CA: Eel River lumber company townRiverbank · Gray area
›Sherman Island / Emmaton shorelineRiverbank · Gray area
›Shingle SpringsOld dump ground · Permission required
›Sierra CityOld dump ground · Permission required
›Skidoo water-powered gold mill townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Snelling: 1851 county seatOld dump ground · Permission required
›Somersville coal-mining ghost townGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Sonoma Landing / SVRR wharf (Tolay marshes)Tidal mudflat · Restricted
›Sonoma: off-plaza lotsOld dump ground · Permission required
›SonoraOld dump ground · Permission required
›Sonora CA: southern-mines queenOld dump ground · Permission required
›Soquel, CA: Soquel Creek village above Monterey BayTidal mudflat · Gray area
›South Bay landings: Mowry & Jarvis (mostly refuge)Tidal mudflat · Restricted
›St. Helena: Sulphur Creek below the 1870s gridRiverbank · Permission required
›Stedman Bagdad-Chase mine campGhost town · Gray area
›Stillwater Cove doghole portTidal foreshore · Restricted
›Stockton CA: San Joaquin supply portRiverbank · Permission required
›Stockton Channel headRiverbank · Gray area
›Suisun City embarcadero sloughTidal mudflat · Gray area
›SusanvilleOld dump ground · Permission required
›Sutter CreekOld dump ground · Permission required
›Swansea Owens Lake smelter townGhost town · Gray area
›Tehama: low-water head of navigationRiverbank · Permission required
›Terminous: Little Potato Slough wharvesTidal mudflat · Permission required
›Terra Cotta coal and clay pipe townGhost town · Gray area
›Tiburon cove / Point TiburonTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Timber Cove doghole portTidal foreshore · Permission required
›Tomales: Keys Creek embarcaderoTidal mudflat · Permission required
›TruckeeOld dump ground · Permission required
›Tuolumne City / Dover ghost landingsRiverbank · Gray area
›UkiahOld dump ground · Permission required
›Vacaville: Ulatis Creek below the old gridRiverbank · Gray area
›Vallejo old waterfront / Mare Island Strait east bankTidal mudflat · Gray area
›Valley Ford: Estero Americano head of navigationRiverbank · Permission required
›Vanderbilt New York Mountains gold campGhost town · Prohibited, look only
›Ventura mission townOld dump ground · Permission required
›Verona (Vernon 1849): Feather mouthRiverbank · Gray area
›VinaRiverbank · Permission required
›VolcanoOld dump ground · Permission required
›Walnut Grove (both banks)Riverbank · Permission required
›Washington CAOld dump ground · Permission required
›Watsonville, CA: Pajaro River sloughs at Monterey BayRiverbank · Gray area
›Weaverville Trinity gold county seatOld dump ground · Permission required
›West Oakland Victorian priviesOld dump ground · Permission required
›Westpoint Slough (Redwood City lumber reach)Tidal mudflat · Gray area
›Westport, CA: north-coast doghole shipping portTidal foreshore · Gray area
›Wilmington: Banning's Landing edgesTidal mudflat · Restricted
›Winfield Scott, Anacapa IslandWreck beach · Prohibited, look only
›Wingo ghost rail junction (Sonoma Creek)Riverbank · Gray area
›Woodbridge, CA: Mokelumne River bridge and ferry townRiverbank · Gray area
›WoodlandOld dump ground · Permission required
›Wrights railroad station ghost townGhost town · Gray area
›Yountville Veterans Home dump (do not dig)Old dump ground · Prohibited, look only
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