About Redding's Lassen Volcanic National Park

Lassen Peaks' May 1914 eruption launched three years of sporadic volcanic outburst. In the largest eruption on May 22, 1915, the peak blew a huge, mushroom-shaped clous of ask over 30,000 feet into the air. The eruption changed the landscape of the surrounding area. The Park was made a National Park in 1916 because of the eruption and the active volcanic landscape. The park is a valuable and natural hydrothermal study of the earth's volcanic landscapes.

Lassen hydrothermal areas--Sulphur Works, Bumpass Hell, Little Hot Springs Valley, Boiling Springs Lake, Devils Kitchen and Therminal Geyser offer bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles and boiling water. There is constant change within the landscape with some getting hotter and more acidicand others less so.

Lassen Peak is one of many active, dormant, or extinct volcanoes found around the Pacific Ocean in a Ring of Fire. On this seismic zone, edges of plates that form Earth's crust grind against each other and one plate subducts or sinks down. Subduction creates molten rock--magma--at the plate margins. As the magma rises into the continental crust, it becomes the feeding chamber of volcanoes.

On the morning of June 14: 1914, B.F. Loomis aimd his camera at Lassen Peak and exposed a series of glass plate negatives that captured an eruption as it unfolded. The eruption occurred at 9:43 a.m. ad was the most powerful event to that dat.

The photographis are blown up to large scale and on display at the Loomis Museum. These are digital photos of the displays.

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The Lassen Loomis Museum Association is a non-profit, cooperating association with Lassen Volcanic National Park. The association is dedicated to enhancing the Park's visitor's experience by providing reference and informational history books of the Park.

The Museum also provides displays of photography and topopgraphy of the park's interior. The exhibits display cutural and the physical dynamics of the parks many attributes and physical layouts.

The museum is a must see and a great place to look for books on the history and the dynamic and living nature of the Park.

It also supports the Park and their goals. Donations are welcome. Contact the Museum at Lassen Loomis Museum Association, PO Box 220, Mineral, CA 96003. 530 505-3399. email llma@citlink.net.

Welcome to the Loomis Museum and Bookstore.

This is the Seismograph that measure movement in the area.

Photo of the Museum. It really cute and quaint.

The book, knowledge and information section. I was able to get a free print out of the tree species in the area.

Geological Display of the area.

Thermal display of the area.

Topography display of the area.

We throroughly enjoy our day trip to Lassen Volcanic National Forest. We'll be heading back soon to Manzanita Lake for some flyfishing. It is very beautiful and at the entrance. It should be accessible most of the year.

Visit our area soon and be sure to take that day trip to Lassen and the diversity of the wildlands in our area.

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AS we took a day trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park this past week, I was amazed at the beauty and richness of this tall forested wildland. Because of the volcanic nature of the park, I expected to only see dry and barren volcanic land. I was a misconception on my part. The park has amazing diversity in areas and topography.

There are four different areas of the park each with a specific ecosytem and climate. The park abounds with nature and diversity of trees, wildlife and wildflowers. We used to live 45 minutes from Yosemite National Park and the valley and 1.5 hours from the high country of Yosemite. We grew to love identifying the trees and wildflowers.

Here are just a few of the wildflowers that grow within the Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Brewer's Mountain Heather

Crimsom Columbine

Silverleaf Lupin

Pussey Paws

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Lassen Volcanic National Park lies to the east of Redding, CA about 50 miles. It takes about an hour to get there by car. You have a vast wilderness and national park to explore on an endless adventure. Rising from around 4,000 feet in elevation to 8,500 at the summit. Glorious mountain views are endless and the topography amazing. Only one third of the park is available by car. The other is willderness for hikers and accessible by trails. The trails system is extensive and can provide a lifetime of exploration including the Pacific Crest Trail coming through the Northwestern corner of the park.

As you enter the Park you have a complex of displays that tell you about the diverse environments within the park and specific areas. It is display beautiful and must visit upon entering the park.

Manzanita Lake greet you upon entry into the National Park and is quite beautiful. The Loomis Musem is located nearby and you can drive to the lake to camp or picnic for the day. Fishing is allowed but catch and realease only.

The Loomis Musem named after the photographer B. F. Loomis who captured the event with a serious of now famous photos.

Devestation Area from the eruption that occurred on June 14, 1914. B.F. Loomis aimed his camera at Lassen Peak and exposed a series of glass plate negatives that captured an eruption as it unfolded. An immense mudflow triggered by newly erupted lava on May 19, 1915 and searing gasses from a violent explosion on May 22, destroyed a swath of forest and wildlife on the valcano's northeast flank, creating the Devestation Area.

Another View of Devestation Area.

This is one of a series of photos that Loomis captured. The entire series show the 8 stages of the event.

View from Bumpass Hell just below the summit looking East.

Beautiful crystal blue lake just before Bumpass Hell area.

Awesome View leaving from the summit looking East. Beautiful Country and only one hour from Redding to the park entrance. If you go no further than Manzanita Lake you will have a beautiful day. Glorious Country. John Muir thought so!

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Visit the Lassen National Park website at: www.nps.gov/lavo

or phone them at 530 595-4444