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The Castle Dome Trail is a strenuous hiking trail into the crags proper and passes near Indian Springs, a natural hillside spring with views of the crags. The trail ends after 2.7 miles (4.3 km) at a notch just west of Castle Dome (4,829 feet (1,472 m)), [ 7 ] the southernmost of the crags, providing an unobstructed view of Mount Shasta and the ...
Mount Shasta's west face as seen from Hidden Valley high on the mountain. The west face gulley is an alternate climbing route to the summit. Mount Shasta can release volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows or dacite and andesite lava. Its deposits can be detected under nearby small towns. Mount Shasta has an explosive, eruptive history.
The Mount Shasta Wilderness is a 38,200-acre (155 km 2) federally designated wilderness area located 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Mount Shasta City in northern California.The US Congress passed the 1984 California Wilderness Act that set aside the Mount Shasta Wilderness.
Highest point; Elevation: 6,896 ft (2,102 m) NGVD 29 [1] Coordinates: 1]: Geography; Location: Lassen and Shasta counties, California, U.S.: Parent range: Cascade Range: Topo map: USGS Prospect Peak: Geology; Mountain type: Extinct Cinder cone: Volcanic arc: Cascade Volcanic Arc: Last eruption: 1666: Climbing; Easiest route: Trail hike: Cinder Cone is a cinder cone volcano in Lassen Volcanic ...
However much of the crags themselves are part of the Castle Crags Wilderness Area within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The forested area of Castle Crags State Park was used by several native groups. The wilderness was the ancestral home to the Okwanuchu Shasta people.
The Shasta–Trinity National Forest has over 460 miles (740 km) [6] of trails including a 154-mile (248 km) section of the Pacific Crest Trail in an east–west direction. The 500-mile (804.7 km) Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway is an auto tour of northern California's volcanos and begins at Lassen Volcanic National Park, then to Mount Shasta and ...
Black Butte (formerly Wintoon Butte, Cone Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Muir's Peak [5]) is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte, [2] a satellite cone of Mount Shasta. [6] It is located directly adjacent to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the cities of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The I-5 freeway ...
Public recreation facilities and amenities within the Shasta Unit include boat ramps, campgrounds, shoreline picnic areas, and hiking/equestrian/mountain biking trails. [2] Shasta Lake is the largest reservoir in California. When full, the lake has 370 miles (600 km) of shoreline, which exceeds that of San Francisco Bay. The reservoir contains ...