Have you even heard of this park? It’s not so well-known which made it a fun one to explore.
I decided that that if Yellowston NP and Craters of the Moon NM had a baby it would be Lassen Volcanic NP!
This park is filled with sulfur boiling pots, mountains, lakes, trees, and volcanic rock.
Below is the boiling sulfur pots and steam geysers (fumaroles) on the Bumpass Hell trail.
FUN FACTS:
~ This park has four different kinds of volcanoes within its boundaries – Shield, Cinder Cone, Plug Dome (Lassen), and Composite.
~The temperature of high-velocity steam jetting from Big Boiler, the largest fumarole (hole in the ground that lets out the steam) in the park, has been measured as high as 322°F, making it one of the hottest hydrothermal fumaroles in the world
~Lassen Peak is a plug dome and last erupted just 105 years ago in 1915!
~ Bumpass Hell (3 mi hike) is named after the man (Kendall V. Bumpass) who discovered the area in the late 1800s while hiking and unfortuantely fell into a steam geyser and had to have a leg amputated.
~Lassen lies at the crossroads of the Cascade range to the north, the Sierra Nevada to the south, and Great Basin desert to the east.
~Hiked Kings Creek with a 40 foot gorgeous water fall! (3 mile roundtrip)
