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Placerville, California
Freeway Exits for Show at Fairgrounds
EXIT FORNI ROAD - PLACERVILLE DRIVE from HIGHWAY 50
Fairgrounds freeway exit map

Directions from Sacramento: 
Travel East on Highway 50 towards So. Lake Tahoe. 
Use Forni Road/Placerville Drive Exit.
Exit Right onto Forni Road (Exit 44B) Continue curving right; follow street over freeway to the stop light at Fair Lane. Proceed through the stop light; you are now on Placerville Drive. Go past the Shopping Center on right. After passing the front entrance to the fairgrounds and museum, turn Right on Armory Drive (at the Shell Station). Go about 1/2 block. See Parking information below

Directions from South Lake Tahoe:
Travel West on Highway 50 towards
Sacramento. 
Exit Right onto Placerville Drive. Go past the Shopping Center. After passing the front entrance to the fairgrounds and museum, turn Right on Armory Drive (at the Shell Station). Go about 1/2 block.

From Highway 49,
turn onto Hwy 50 west (toward Sacramento). Use above directions as if traveling from So. Lake Tahoe.

 


PARKING:
We are hopeful that the fairgrounds will again provide free parking in the tier parking lot left of the Blue Gate entrance
. (We will post updated information early next year.) The El Dorado Club is supplying a free shuttle cart to take you to the show buildings.

Parking is available near the buildings; however, the fairgrounds will charge a fee (fairgrounds to set amount for 2008). 
 

Map courtesy of El Dorado Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau
 

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