Introducing Mount Shasta & Around
At Mt Shasta’s base sit three must-see towns: Dunsmuir, Mt Shasta City and McCloud. Each community has a distinct personality but all share a wild-mountain sensibility (plus great restaurants and places to stay). Then of course there is the mountain itself, which you’ll need no urging to visit. One hypnotic glimpse and you’ll find it hard to stay away. In the same dramatic vicinity are the snaggle-toothed peaks of Castle Crags, just 6 miles west of Dunsmuir.
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Northeast of Mt Shasta, a long drive and a world away, is remote, eerily beautiful Lava Beds National Monument, a blistered badland of petrified fire. The contrasting cool wetlands of Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges are just west of Lava Beds near Tule Lake.
Further east, high desert plateaus give way to the mountains of the northern Sierra. Folks in this remote area are genuinely happy to greet a traveler, even if they’re a bit uncertain why you’ve come.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Vancouver to San Francisco/Healdsburg
by trekker502 29 January 2011
Interstate-5 is the fast, direct route to Healdsburg vicinity; you would need to cut over to Highway #101 eventually. You have probably…
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RE: Seattle to Los Angeles Nov 2010
by travelpluswine 11 December 2009
Portland- McMenamins Lodge about 30 minutes outside of the city (Near the Columbia River) is a great place to spend a night or two. Just…
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RE: Seattle to Anchorage drive, and Whittier, Alaska
by trekker502 21 April 2008
Have a good trip! If your vehicle uses diesel gas, you could take the Cassiar Hwy. shortcut, otherwise there are not enough gasoline…
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