Lassen Volcanic National Park

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Address:38050 Hwy 36 E
Mineral, CA 96063
Phone:530-595-4444
Fax:530-595-3262
Web: www.nps.gov/lavo/
Size: 106,372 acres.
Established: Proclaimed as Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone National Monuments on May 6, 1907; made part of Lassen Volcanic National Park when established on August 9, 1916. Wilderness designated on October 19, 1972.
Location:In northern California, 50 miles northeast of Red Bluff on CA 36, and 50 miles east of Redding on CA 44.
Facilities:Campgrounds (é), picnic area, rest rooms (é), cabin rental, groceries, restaurant/snacks, boat ramp, visitor center (é), self-guided tour/trail. Entrance fee required.
Activities:Camping, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, mountain climbing, swimming, boating, fishing, cross-country skiing, auto touring, ranger-led programs.
Special Features:Lassen Peak erupted intermittently from 1914 to 1921 and, before the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington, was the most recent volcanic outburst in the contiguous 48 states. Active volcanism at the park includes hot springs, steaming fumaroles, mud pots, and sulfurous vents.

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Resources Management Division, Lassen Volcanic National Park, PO Box 100, Mineral, CA 96063

Use of historically fishless high-mountain lakes and streams by Nearctic river otters (Lontra canadensis) in California

Characteristics of volcanic blasts, mudflows and rock-fall avalanches in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California.

Colonization of a Volcanic Mudflow by an Upper Montane Coniferous Forest at Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

20 SUMMIT LAKE SOUTH CAMPGROUND, LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK

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Lassen Volcanic National Park is about five hours north of San Francisco; it's accessible from mid-June until early October.

On the secret mountain: our mission: Uncover the west's most beautiful, least visited wonderland. We found it on Lassen Peak

A decade ago, officials in Glacier National Park in Montana decided to prohibit snowmobiles in the park interior; in the early 1980s, limited snowmobile use was permitted and then subsequently withdrawn from California's Yosemite, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, and Lassen Volcanic national parks; and in 1992 at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the National Park Service closed a downhill ski resort called Hidden Valley after it was deemed financially insolvent and contradictory to park values.

Snowed under: the roar of snowmobiles in many national parks has replaced the solitude and quiet that once defined the winter landscape

Tazuk became hooked on Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California some 20 years ago.

Spectacular Lassen

We are standing in front of Clearwater House, Galland's lodge and fly-fishing school near the small lumber town of Burney, just north of Lassen Volcanic National Park. It sits just about dead in the center of what most fly-fishers agree is not only some of the most varied fly-fishing water in California, but possibly the best trout fishing in the state.

Fly-fishing paradise in volcano country

Even though downhill skiing is no more, it's still a great place for winter play LAST AUGUST, WHEN the small downhill ski facility at Lassen Volcanic National Park was removed, some local skiers and businesspeople were dismayed.

Mount Lassen, apres ski lift

Two short new trails in Lassen Volcanic National Park take you to areas of dramatic destruction and rebirth.

New trails give you a look at Lassen's turbulent past

Lassen Volcanic National Park. A year in advance, ask to be put on a reservations list for summer bookings at Drakesbad, the only dude ranch in a national park (rooms and cabins $70, bungalows and annex $80).

66 toughest tickets in the West; here are trips, lodging, and annual events that are so popular you need to book way ahead

Elsewhere in northern California, only two other wildernesses require permits at this time: in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, day-hikers and overnighters; in Lassen Volcanic National Park, overnighters.

Getting clearance for a Sierra hike

Geological Survey (USGS) research biologist with the Biological Resources Division and former NPS employee at Point Reyes National Seashore in California, Fellers has studied amphibians in Redwood, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Lassen Volcanic national parks in California.

Amphibian assault