It is an eerie feeling to know there is a town sitting beneath the surface of a lake. It is a stranger feeling when the water ...

We left downtown Sonora about 9 a.m. Sunday and drove northeast to Lake Alpine reservoir on Highway 4 in the rocky, rugged Alpine County section of the Stanislaus National Forest.

If you want to cool off, Angel Lake and others in higher elevations are the way to go. Just be prepared to hike to some of ...