Mariposa, California
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Mariposa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 1,526 at the 2020 census. The community is named after the flocks of monarch butterflies seen overwintering there by early explorers.
Dusk in downtown Mariposa
Historic Spanish Colonial Revival style Mariposa County High School, built in 1914.
Mariposa County Courthouse
Oakhurst, California
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Oakhurst is a census-designated place (CDP) in Madera County, California, United States, 14 miles (23 km) south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. At an elevation of 2,274 ft (693 m), Oakhurst is situated at the junction of Highway 41 and Highway 49, marking the southern end of California's Gold Country. It is part of the Madera metropolitan statistical area.
Image: Oakhurst California Deadwood Mountain December 2023
Image: Little Church on the Hill at Oakhill Cemetery in Oakhurst, California
Image: Welcome to Oakhurst
Skeane S. Skeenes, first militia casualty of the Mariposa War, buried at Oakhill Cemetery, Oakhurst.