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Aerial view of Mount Lassen with snow, early May 2018. Lassen Peak lies within Lassen Volcanic National Park, in Shasta County, California, 55 mi (89 km) east of the city of Redding. [4] Lassen Peak and the rest of the National Park area are surrounded by the Lassen National Forest, [5] which has an area of 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km 2). [6]
The park is located near the northern end of the Sacramento Valley, near the cities of Redding and Susanville. It is located in portions of Shasta , Lassen , Plumas , and Tehama counties. The western part of the park features great lava pinnacles (huge mountains created by lava flows), jagged craters, and steaming sulfur vents.
Lassen National Forest is also the site of significant events in California history: Ishi Wilderness was the refuge of the "last wild Indian", [citation needed] Caribou Wilderness was one of the first protected "primitive areas" decades before the federal wilderness system was established, and the volcanic explosion of Mt. Lassen was the first ...
Cinder Cone lies in Lassen and Shasta counties, in Northern California, within the United States.Located 1.5 mi (2.4 km) southwest of Butte Lake and 2.2 mi (3.5 km) southeast of Prospect Peak [1] (which dwarfs Cinder Cone), [2] it is also sometimes referred to as Black Butte or Cinder Butte. [1]
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Lake Helen is a glacial lake or a tarn occupying a cirque at around 8,200 feet (2,500 m) in Lassen Volcanic National Park. [1] The lake is located to the south of Lassen Peak and west of Bumpass Mountain in the Shasta Cascades region of Northern California. Highway 89 runs along the lake's southern and eastern shore. [2]
Lassen County (/ ˈ l æ s ə n / ⓘ LASS-ən) is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,730. [4] The county seat and only incorporated city is Susanville. [5] Lassen County comprises the Susanville, California, micropolitan statistical area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.