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Big Bar California Map

Explore Big Bar, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Big Bar, California

How to Use This Big Bar, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Big Bar, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Big Bar.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Big Bar
State	California (CA)
County	Calaveras County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.311859
Longitude	-120.719934
Density	N/A /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95965, 95245, 96010
Area Code	408, 669, 530
County Seat	San Andreas

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About Big Bar, California

Big Bar is a locality in Calaveras County, California, United States. Big Bar is located at 38.3119°N, 120.7199°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95965, 95245, 96010.

Big Bar anchors itself within the rugged, vertical descent of Butte Canyon, where the Mokelumne River carves a restless path through the earth. It lies 26.9 miles south of Diamond Springs, CA (from Diamond Springs, CA: bearing 169°T), and is situated 3.9 miles southeast of Jackson. The air here holds a crisp, terrestrial weight, devoid of any maritime influence, circulating instead through the dense, shadowed corridors of Mount Zion State Forest. Light at dusk performs a slow, golden transformation, catching the jagged edges of the canyon walls before retreating into the deep, cool crevices of the landscape. Far to the east, the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada silhouette the horizon, grounding the perspective in a vast, continental scale that feels both ancient and immutable.

History clings to the geology of Big Bar, where the remnants of early prospectors and settlers remain as quiet footnotes in the soil. The economy, once dictated by the unpredictable bounty of the river, has evolved into a quiet stewardship of the land, marked by a deliberate, measured pace of life that favors resilience over rapid growth. Residents find their recreation in the solitude of the wilderness, occasionally venturing toward the quiet waters of Lake Tabeaud or seeking the solitude of the South Nature Trail. Life in Big Bar persists in the silence between the rush of the Mokelumne River and the shifting shadows of the trees, a place where the passage of time is measured not in industry, but in the slow, rhythmic cycle of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — locality lies within · 2,737 acres
Veteran's Memorial Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 127° SE
Amador County Museum (Museum) — 3.9 mi, 313° NW
Impound Dam Overlook (Viewpoint) — 4.5 mi, 320° NW
Tailing Wheel No. 3 (Historic Ruins) — 4.6 mi, 320° NW
Flume Tressel Piers (Historic Ruins) — 4.7 mi, 320° NW
Kennedy Gold Mine (Attraction) — 5.1 mi, 320° NW
Change House Museum and Gift Shop (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 320° NW
North Fork Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 6.8 mi, 053° NE · 2,970 acres
New Hogan Lake (Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 173° S
Sutter Creek Theatre (Theatre) — 7.2 mi, 321° NW
Pardee Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 7.9 mi, 255° W
Metropolitan Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 8.2 mi, 165° S
Calaveras County Historical Museum (Museum) — 8.2 mi, 165° S
Sutter Gold Mine (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 324° NW
Camanche Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 8.9 mi, 239° SW
3 Fish Studios (Gallery) — 9.3 mi, 323° NW
Historic Joseph H. Thomas House (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 323° NW
Ione Manzanita Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 10.0 mi, 244° SW
The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 321° NW
Claypipers Theatre (Theatre) — 11.5 mi, 321° NW
Iron Ivan (Monument) — 11.9 mi, 284° W
Chew Kee Store (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 351° N
Local (Gallery) — 13.6 mi, 329° NW
Sobon Estate Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 353° N
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 15.5 mi, 055° NE · 901k acres
Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 16.8 mi, 032° NE · 703k acres
Mokelumne Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 30.7 mi, 064° NE · 104k acres
Carson-Iceberg Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 39.3 mi, 076° E · 159k acres
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 49.4 mi, 113° SE · 743k acres

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