Jeff and I enjoyed a wonderful day with our two Chocolate Labs, Summer and Skye exploring Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California. We entered on the northwest entrance at Manzanita Lake. Manzanita Lake is 26 surface acres at an elevation of 5,988 feet above sea level. Manzanita Lake was formed when Manzanita Creek was dammed 300 years ago by a rock avalanche from the northwest slope of the Chaos Crags, which also resulted in the debris formation known as Chaos Jumbles. This National Park is only 175 miles north of our home.
While visiting this amazing National Park we learned so much about this wonderful place and captured beautiful scenery along our 30 mile journey through the main section of the Park. We made all 16 stops on the self-guided point of interest drive through the heart of the Park. First stop was the National Park sign group shot, then we captured amazing super cloud reflections casting off of Manzanita and Reflection Lakes. We then visited many of this parks features including: Chaos Crags; the Novles Emigrant Trail; Hot Rock; the Devastated Area with it's very informative 1/2 mile trail describing the Lassen Peak in 1915; beautiful Hat Creek Lake and meadow; Kings Creek and Meadow; Lassen Summit trailhead at a staggering 8,512 feet; Helen and Emerald Lakes which are still iced over; Sulphur Works with it's boiling sulfur pools and pots; and concluding with a nice picnic lunch for both us and our dogs at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center which is the southwest entrance to the park.
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