Gribblenation

Madera County Road 210 is an approximately twelve-mile loop of Madera County Road 211 located in the Sierra Nevada foothills north of Millerton Lake.  Madera County Road 210 loops through townsite of Hildreth which was located on the Fresno Flats stage road during the 1870s.  Hildreth declined from the 1890s through the 1920s and is now a ghost town.  Pictured as the blog cover is the Fine Gold Gulch Bridge along Road 210 which was constructed in 1920.   Part 1; the history of Hildreth and Madera County Road 210 Hildreth was founded in the 1870s by Tom Hildreth near Fine Gold Gulch in what was then northern Fresno County. Tom Hildreth constructed a store which was located the stage road from the San Joaquin River at Millerton to Fresno Flats. Hildreth had Post Office service between 1886-1896 and the community once had three hotels. Hildreth (shown as Hildrethville) can be seen on the 1891 Thompson Atlas of Fresno County north of Millerton in Township 9S, Range 21E. Hildreth Road (

  While everyone was enjoying their brat summer, I wound up exploring and went to quite a few different places in the process. Over Memorial Day Weekend in 2024, the destination for the long weekend was Quebec, which isn't a long haul from my home base in the Albany, New York area, but it's a place I haven't explored enough. On this second day of the trip, I started and ended my day in the suburbs of Quebec City, made my way up along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to the very scenic Charlevoix region, where I spent a little time exploring the roads and hiking trails of the rugged mountains and coastline, then took a ferry over to Riviere-du-Loup before heading back to my hotel for the night. Plus there were some surprises along the way, which is typical for the types of multi-day road trips I take. Here is a collection of photo highlights from the second day of that three-day adventure.  Starting my day the A-20 way, or is that the QC 116 way. I wound up taking t