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Lake McCloud is a reservoir on the McCloud River in Northern California. [3] The lake forms behind an earthen dam finished in 1965 (60 years ago) () by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to control water flows and for generating hydro-electric power. [1] McCloud Dam (National ID # CA00416) is 235 feet (72 m) high, 630 feet (190 m) long at its ...
McCloud is located at (41.254682, -122.136321) [7] on the southern slope of Mount Shasta, at an elevation of 3,271 feet (997 m) above sea [2]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), of which, 2.4 square miles (6.2 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) of it (2.65%) is water.
It joins Shasta Lake, formed by the Shasta Dam, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Redding, with the lower 10 miles (16 km) of the river forming the middle arm of the lake. The McCloud arm joins the Pit River arm just east of the Pit River Bridge on Interstate 5, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the city of Shasta Lake.
The McCloud River is one of the best spots in the world for rainbow trout. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife regularly monitors and stocks the upper portion of the lake near Lower ...
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 ends at Crater Lake National Park. Beginning in McCloud, the Modoc Volcanic Scenic Byway travels through some unique volcanic scenery in the eastern portion of the Forest on ...
Siskiyou County is the northern extent of the range for California Buckeye, [11] a widespread California endemic. The Klamath National Forest occupies 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2 ) of land which includes elements in Siskiyou County as well as Jackson County, Oregon .
He established the town of Sisson surrounding his inn, and he built a fishing resort a half-day's ride away on the McCloud River, at an elevation between 2,700 and 3,000 feet (820 and 910 m), some 16 miles (26 km) distant. Popular with hunters and fishermen, it became known as "Sisson's-on-the-McCloud". [2] Justin Sisson died in 1893.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service