duckwalk,some of the best best color around here was actually under the old blockbuster parking lot .before they started ,I used to park at wendy's go down the hill. There was a small stream that had really good color ,most was small -typical v.r. gold (dust) but there was an occasional rice sized piece.but that little creek had color everywhere. 30-50 colors per pan sometimes.shortly after I found it they started working on the parking lot .never got to put my dredge in there.man that would have been a good spot.there were a lot of arrowheads there,and some nice pieces of kyanite. some parts of the swamp behind mirror lake are good as well.getting hard to get to some places now.