Sometimes, it takes a monumental event to spur Congress into establishing a national park. Such a significant event, or ...

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The snowiest mountain in California — and the second snowiest place in the continental United States — is Lassen Peak in Shasta County, with an average of about 45 feet of snowfall yearly.

Most of the park is blanketed by snow from November to April (or longer), and the trail to Lassen Peak is a snowshoe-only adventure well into the spring and sometimes, into summer. During the ...

On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a newborn crater, they felt the ground tremble.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...