Klamath/Lake/ Modoc/Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Working Group Volcanic Legacy McCloud, on the southern slope of Mount www.klms.net Shasta is a picturesque community that offers Scenic Byway everything from luxury accommodations, camping, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All American Road and picnicking. Proceeding north on the byway you will visit Alturas Chamber of Commerce Mt. Shasta City, known for its wide variety of book- www.alturaschamber.org One of just 31 All 530-233-4434 stores, galleries, gift shops, and restaurants, as well American Roads in the as the Sisson Museum and Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery. United States, the Big Valley Chamber of Commerce Dunsmuir, just south of the byway and Mt. Shasta - [email protected] www.bigvalleychamber.org Volcanic Legacy Scenic City, has a century-long history as a railroad town 530-294-5700 Byway connects Lassen and is currently a fine dining destination. Volcanic National Park to The Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum on the BLM - Alturas Field Office Crater Lake National Park. western slope of Mount Shasta offers a collection of 530-233-4666 The volcanic activity of the Cascade Range has artifacts including a collection of antique logging Pat Hutson created unique geological formations that can equipment. Lake Shastina is known for its chal- BLM - Klamath Falls District only be seen in this part of America. Gigantic lenging 27-hole “Magnificent Monster” golf course 541-883-6916 obsidian glass flows, steaming mud pots and lava and water recreation. As you leave Weed on Hwy. 97 North toward the BLM - Lakeview District tube caves surrounded by a wide diversity of 541-947-2177 scenery make this an unforgettable experience. Oregon/California Stateline you will be passing the The byway travels through dense forests, across base of Mount Shasta, with its summit looming BLM - Surprise Field Office broad wetlands, pastoral grasslands, along clear 8,000 feet above. A few more miles down the road, 530-279-6101 swift streams and through massive farms and you will encounter the Living Memorial Sculpture ranches. The wide open-spaces adjacent to the Garden, a heart-warming memorial dedicated to Burney Chamber of Commerce byway are an ideal setting for hiking adventures, Vietnam Veterans. www.burneychamber.com great fishing and whitewater boating. Traveling north, the log cabin at the Deer 530-335-2111 Mountain snowmobile park a few miles east of Hwy Other Scenic Byways: 97 is popular stop for lunch all year long, and is the Butte Valley center of winter snowmobiling and backcountry Chamber of Commerce Cascade Lakes National Scenic Byway snowshoeing. A few miles further north, the Mount www.buttevalleychamber.com Emigrant Trails Scenic Byway 530-397-2111 Shasta Vista Point will give you a grand view of the Modoc Volcanic Scenic Byway northern, glaciated side of Mt. Shasta, and provides Chester/Lake Almanor Oregon Outback National Scenic Byway information about the mountain’s volcanic history. Chamber of Commerce Rogue-Umpqua National Scenic Byway Grass Lake provides a scenic stopover point with www.lakealmanorarea.com short paths to stroll and stretch, as well as restrooms. 800-350-4838 Be sure to ask for local road As you enter Butte Valley you will come into Butte Valley National Grassland, the only national Christmas Valley conditions before traveling during grassland in California. Adjacent to the Grassland is Chamber of Commerce late fall, spring and winter months. the Butte Valley State Wildlife Area. You are enter- www.christmasvalleychamber.org ing one of the best wildlife viewing areas in North 541-576-3838 Lake Almanor/Chester - Recreational Paradise America. Literally millions of birds pass through the Collier State Park The southern-most point of the Volcanic Legacy area annually on the Pacific Flyway. As you & Logging Museum Scenic Byway is Lake Almanor, which is where the descend the Hebron summit on Hwy. 97 you pass 541-783-2471 Sierra Mountain Range meets the Cascade Range. through the small towns of MacDoel and Dorris, In a small amount of space, this is where Highways home of the tallest flagpole west of the Mississippi. Crater Lake National Park 89, 32, 36, and 44 converge. Lake Almanor basin At the Oregon/California border on Hwy. 97 a www.nps.gov/crla/ is best known as a recreational paradise. few miles from Dorris, you will have to make a 541-594-3000 Chester is the business service center for the choice. The byway will continue on Hwy. 161 (Stateline Road). You can either stay on Hwy. 97 Discover Klamath Visitor Center area providing the largest base of lodging opportu- nities on the southern portion of the byway. North taking the Hwy. 140 West exit, or take Hwy. www.DiscoverKlamath.com 161 route and loop back to Klamath Falls after tak- 800-445-6728 The road north out of Westwood, east of Lake Almanor/Chester provides wintertime access to the ing this memorable side trip. For wildlife viewing, Dunsmuir Chamber of Commerce Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway. The road through take this driving tour of some of the best viewing in dunsmuir.com Lassen Volcanic National Park is usually closed North America. At this juncture you will be entering 800-386-7684 from November to May. Just a few miles off the the Lower Klamath, Bear Valley, Tule Lake and byway and east of Westwood is Susanville. The Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuges (NWR). Along Fall River Valley cliffs and gorge of the Susan River flank its western with the Butte Valley State Wildlife Area and the Chamber of Commerce limits and is the eastern end of the Bizz Johnson Klamath State Wildlife Area, the wildlife viewing 530-336-5840 Recreation Trail. This rail-to-trail conversion is con- opportunities provide over 350 species of birds. sidered by many to be one of the most exhilarating Just past the Tule Lake NWR you will come to Fremont-Winema National Forests the Lava Beds National Monument. Experience first 541-883-6714 • 541-947-2151 trails in Northern California. Hwy. A-21 meets Hwy. 44, with its wide-open spaces popular with snow- hand this monument to volcanism, where the earth’s magic lies deep underground. There are Goosenest Ranger Station mobilers in the winter months, and eventually con- guided tours of cinder buttes, volcanic glass flows 530-398-4391 nects back to Hwy. 89, at Old Station.
and almost 600 caves and lava tubes - PO Box 172, Bonanza, OR 97623 541/ 545-6985 or cell: 892-0596 [email protected] • ORIGINAL MAP DESIGN: Klamath Basin Birding Trail Lassen Volcanic National Park - Volcanic History From 1872 to 1873, this area was the site of the www.klamathbirdingtrails.com and Scenic Wonder Modoc War. Captain Jack’s Stronghold is located in 800-445-6728 The very existence of Lassen Volcanic National Lava Beds National Monument. Park is linked to an awakening of Lassen Peak in Tulelake on the eastern side of the refuges is Klamath Basin National 1914, the beginning of a seven-year cycle of spo- known as the horseradish growing capital of the Wildlife Refuges radic volcanic outbursts. The area was designated world. www.fws.gov/klamathbasinrefuges/ During World War II the Tule Lake Relocation 530-667-2231 a National Park in 1916 because of its significance as an active volcanic landscape. On the north edge Center in Newell was the site of the Japanese American Internment Camp. A German/Italian pris- Klamath County of the park is Manzanita Lake with the most acces- oner-of-war camp was located outside of Tulelake. Chamber of Commerce sible camping in the park as well as a park store. www.klamath.org For further detailed information about the Park con- To learn more about the area’s history, visit the 541-884-5193 tact Lassen Volcanic National Park at new Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair Museum of Local 530-595-4444. History.
Lake County Chamber of Cindy Deas - Bonanza Consulting Commerce Old Station/Hat Creek/Burney/Fall River Midland, Klamath Falls, Rocky Point, Fort www.lakecountychamber.org Mills/McCloud - Creeks, Rivers and Waterfalls Klamath, and Crater Lake National Park 541-947-6040 North of the park is Old Station. It traces the his- As you crossed the Oregon border, you started the toric Lassen and Nobles Emigrant Trails. both des- last segment, or really the beginning, of the Lassen National Forest Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway All American Road. 530-257-2151 ignated by Congress as National Historic Trails. This area served as a stagecoach stop and military This 140-mile segment is the original byway dedi- cated in 1997 by the Federal Highway Lassen Volcanic National Park post in the early part of California’s settlement. Administration. www.nps.gov/lavo Just north of Old Station is Subway Cave with an 530-595-4444 opportunity to walk through a volcanic lava tube. As you travel on Hwy. 97 North, you will come to Further north along Hwy. 89 is Hat Creek, con- the community of Midland, then historic Klamath Lava Beds National Monument sidered by many as one of the best trout flyfishing Falls. Just west of Klamath Falls is Upper Klamath www.nps.gov/labe streams in the country. Lake, the largest body of freshwater west of the 530-667-8113 At the intersection of Hwy. 89 and Hwy. 299, you Rockies. Travel directly along the lake as you pro- can make several side trips into rural communities ceed on Hwy. 140 West along the Upper Klamath McCloud Chamber of Commerce National Wildlife Refuge and head north on 530-964-3113 such as Burney and Fall River Mills. Both have lodging and a variety of restaurants. In Fall River Westside Road to Rocky Point. Rocky Point Resort Mills, the historic Fort Crook Museum is open from has boat and canoe rentals on Upper Klamath Modoc National Forest Lake. 530-233-5811 May to November, with a huge collection of memo- rabilia from early settlers and Native Americans. Pit Proceeding on Westside Road toward Hwy. 62, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge River and McArthur Burney Falls State Park, which you’ll see the beautiful Wood River Valley, with end- 530-233-3572 President Theodore Roosevelt called the “eighth less wildlife viewing opportunities. Continuing north wonder of the world.” on Hwy. 62, you will enter the town of Fort Mt. Shasta Chamber of Commerce Continuing north on Hwy. 89 will bring you to the Klamath, home of Fort Klamath Museum, open Visitors Bureau McCloud River loop which offers the visitor a during the summer months. Don’t be surprised to 800-926-4865 chance to see three spectacular waterfalls. see a real cattle drive on the highway while travel- www.mtshastachamber.com ing toward Crater Lake National Park. McCloud/Mt. Shasta City/Dunsmuir/Weed/ Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United Mt. Shasta Ranger Station States and the seventh deepest in the world. Park 530-926-4511 MacDoel/Dorris/Tulelake This portion of the All American Road has the headquarters is open year-round along with the William C. Steel Information Center. The park can N. Klamath Co.Online Visitor Center distinction of having a view of Mount Shasta for www.northklamathcounty.org almost the entire section. Majestic Mount Shasta at receive up to 500 inches of snow in the winter months, so the best time to visit the park is June
14,162 feet is the tallest volcano in California and - 541/ 331-0440 [email protected] • FOR SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION: Shasta Cascade can often be seen from more than 100 miles away. through October. Wonderland Association www.shastacascade.com 530-365-7500
Siskiyou County Visitor Bureau www.visitsiskiyou.org Christine Riedy
Tulelake Chamber of Commerce www.visittulelake.com 530-667-3276
WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument – Tule Lake Unit 530-260-0537 www.nps.gov/tule
Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway All-American Road 866-722-9929 www.volcaniclegacybyway.org
Weed Chamber of Commerce
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