Gold Rush TV Series Locations – News From The Diggings
The Gold Rush reality TV series has captured minds and inspired an avid fanbase that has followed the trials and successes of placer gold mining crews (predominantly) in the Yukon. Following a massive recession, a crew of 6 men from Sandy, Oregon risk their savings and the welfare of their families on one last ditch attempt to strike it rich in the Yukon. In the past six seasons, new crew members have come and gone, lessons have been learned, and Gold Rush has risen to dominate the Friday evening block of televisions programming for men between 25 and 54 years old. The success has made Gold Rush Discovery Channel’s #1 show and spawned two direct spin offs—Gold Rush: The Jungle and Gold Rush: South America—as well as inspired many other related reality TV shows. One can only guess at the number of people that the Hoffman and other crews have inspired to take up a pick and shovel to begin their own gold mining adventure.
Gold Rush Locations
It can be easy to loose oneself in the drama and forget that this show is filmed on real locations where actual gold is being excavated from the earth. But not only are these real gold deposits, but we can trace these locations to particular gold mines and claims:
