Daniel, my new friend/brother in gold prospecting…reading your post made me give thanks to God for my sight, something many forget to be thankful for! May God richly bless you and your brother, you are blessed to have each other.

From my experience, I recommend JPL1 in Siskiyou County, California. There’s places to tent camp there or along the incredibly beautiful Klamath River. We stayed in a nicely furnished cabin at the Bigfoot RV Park and Cabins in Happy Camp. Met a very nice GPAA couple there. Brings a tear remembering our wonderful time there years ago with our son before he left for the Air Force a couple years later. We were crazy…hauled a canoe atop my pickup from east Texas to Happy Camp in order to cross the mighty Klamath.! What an incredible experience, I don’t recommend doing that!

The river at JPL1 is relatively easy to access and we pulled respectable gold from the gravel bars there…check out my reviews for more info. Also, you can pan the “Sluicebox” gravel bar just north of the small community of Seiad Valley. There’s good gold there too, but we ditched our gold pans there to play in the river and float our tubes. Your brother will enjoy the sounds of the babbling river and freshness of the beautiful environment. Be respectful of the historical area…Sadly, upstream a landslide took out an old timer community of Chinese miners. I was told all are still buried there…their homes, gold/possessions, and their bodies…items all best left alone.

Bigfoot area as well. Local miner told tale of working his claim to have large boulders hurled at him while mining the creek. My former Sergeant (a no nonsense fellow) told of a fishing trip north of there in Oregon. They caught a stringer of fish, staked it on the opposite side of the lake to clean the next morning. He was the first person up the next morning at dawn, to see what he first thought was a bear trying to get to the stringer of fish in the water. Yelled at it, when the enormous beast stood up and they made eye contact he realized that it was definitely not a bear. It turned around and walked into the woods like a man. A famous sighting was filmed south of Happy Camp back in the 60’s as well.

Good luck!

Brian Williams 🤝