Pino Grande, California

Pino Grande (Spanish for "Large Pine") is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.

Besides the mill, there were dozens of workers cabins, a hospital, a school, cooks building, machine shops and sheds.

The mill, camp, railroad, tracks, trestles, engines, rolling stock, etc., are now long gone.

The Pino Grande Railroad traveled along a narrow-gauge track through the Georgetown Divide area.

This narrow-gauge railroad hauled vast amounts of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine timber through the rugged terrain of the Divide as well as other parts of El Dorado County.

El Dorado County map