Lassen
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Lassen, CA
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Museums & Historical Sites in Lassen
Our guide to Lassen Museums and Historical Sites will help you explore Lassen's colorful history.
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Featured Lassen Hotels & Resorts
Best Western Rose Quartz Inn ─ Click for reviews and book online
306 Main St., Chester, CA
Nestled among the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in northern California, lies the Best Western Rose Quartz Inn. This Chester hotel is located next to Lake Almanor offering a variety of water activities such as boating, water skiing and fishing.
P.O. Box 355 Bieber, CA 96009 (530) 294-5368
The museum features exhibits of pioneer life and Native American artifacts of northeastern California.
200 First Ave, Chester (530) 258-2742
The museum features a photographic history of the Lake Almanor Basin. It also has a collection of Maidu Indian basketry and artifacts. The museum is open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
The Coburn-Variel Home
137 Coburn St., Quincy (530) 283-6320
The circa 1878, three-story Victorian has been fully restored and is furnished with a museum collection that represents a turn-of-the-century middle-class family home. It's open for tours from May through September. Call for specific times.
Fort Crook Museum
Fall River Mills (530) 336-5110
Lassen Historical Museum
105 N. Weatherlow St., Susanville (530) 257-3292
The museum features antique logging equipment and tools. Roop's Fort (circa 1854) is adjacent to the museum. It contains pictures of Susanville dating back to the mid 1850's. It also contains Native American artifacts.
38050 Hwy 36E, Mineral (530) 595-3399
Located near Manzanita Lake, the museum is open weekends from late May to mid June, daily from mid June to late September, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
500 Jackson Street, Quincy (530) 283-6320
The museum's collections include Maidu Indian baskets, pioneer weapons, natural history, and period rooms that depict domestic life in early Plumas County. The museum also features a blacksmith shop, miner's cabin, and a carriage house with a restored buggy. The museum operates year-round 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. May through September, they also operate on Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Plumas Eureka State Park Museum 310 Johnsville Road, Blairsden (530) 836-2380
The museum displays mining tools, photographs, pioneer household items, and antique mining equipment. Other nearby buildings include the five-story Mohawk Stamp Mill, a blacksmith shop, a bunkhouse, and a miner's home. Once a month during the summer, docents don period costumes to recreate a miner's life in 1890. The State Park is open daily, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer.
Plumas Eureka State Park Museum
Johnsville Road, Graeagle, CA (530) 836-2380
The Museum is a converted miners' bunkhouse that brings the miners' daily regime to vivid life, with an exhibit of tools, household items, mining machinery, and photographs. Nearby are the old blacksmith shop, where drills were sharpened, and the spectacular remains of the stamp mill,, where steel pistons weighing nearly a half ton smashed bucket loads of ore for the gold--some $18 million worth before the last mine closed in 1943.
Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola
700 Western Pacific Way Portola, CA (530) 832-4131
Established in 1983 by the Feather River Rail Society, the museum preserves general railroad history, equipment, photos, and artifacts. Visitors can tour an extensive collection of train cars and locomotives. The Museum is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (5 p.m. during summer.)
Westwood Museum
311 Ash, Westwood (530) 256-2233
The museum displays artifacts and pictures of the town during the heyday of the Red River Lumber Company. From 1913 to 1956 it was the largest pine lumber mill in the world.
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Ancient Trail of the Mountain Maidu Indians
Located between Quincy and Susanville, you can take an auto tour of the 67-mile long Mountain Maidu trail.
Blacks Ridge Lookout
The lookout tower and cab were assembled in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Located only four miles from the small community of Little Valley, the Lookout is at an elevation of 6,037 feet.
The Gallatin House was Built in 1913 by Malvena Gallatin. The home is located one mile east of Gallatin Marina on the southeast shore of Eagle Lake.
Historic Greenville Main Street – Walking Tour
The Greenville City Hall Memorial Museum provides a brochure and map of the historical sites.
Harvey Mountain Lookout
The lookout was constructed on Harvey Mountain in 1935--elevation 7,354 feet.
Humboldt Wagon Road
Most of the Humboldt Wagon Road has been replaced with state and county roads, but you can still see sections of the original road at Humboldt Summit. You can reach this location by following county roads 91422 (Butte County) or 308 (Plumas County) between Butte Meadows and Lake Almanor.
Lily Pond Nature Trail Trailhead: Loomis Museum Parking Area Round trip distance: 1 mile and takes about 1 hour. Terrain: It's an easy walk that takes you through forests and around beautiful mountain lakes.
The Ishi Wilderness was named after Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Yana Indians. The Yahi Yana lived in the area for over 3,000 years before they were eventually exterminated by white settlers. You can access trailheads to the area from roads connecting with Highway 32 at Chico or at Highway 36 at Paynes Creek. Be prepared because it's difficult hiking.
The trail was used by thousands of emigrants as they traveled to the gold fields in California. Two ways to experience the Lassen Trail now are by driving county road A21 between highways 36 and 44, or by walking the route as it crosses through the Ishi Wilderness.
Mineral Ranger Station
Although the the station's original buildings were replaced in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Mineral has been continuously used as a Forest Service administrative site since 1907.
The volunteer trail organization, Trails West, Inc., has placed 53 markers along the Nobles Trail, beginning at Rabbithole Creek in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and concluding at Old Shasta in Northern California.
Located on the northwest side of Eagle Lake, Noah Spalding settled the 120-acre homestead in 1882 and operated a dairy farm.
West Prospect Peak Lookout - Hat Creek
Built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, it is the highest lookout point in the Lassen National Forest. the The lookout is located one mile north of Lassen Volcanic National Park.
West Prospect Fire Lookout -
Learn how forest fires are detected while enjoying a panoramic view of northern Lassen Park and surrounding Lassen National Forest. Turn off Highway 89 one mile south of Big Pine Campground and travel 12 miles to reach the lookout. Trucks are advised. Open during the summer, seven days a week. Lookout hours are 9:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
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Native America Exhibits
A Brief History of the Modoc War
As settling began on Lost River, emigrants demanded that the Modocs be removed from their homes and placed on the Klamath Reservation with the Klamath and Snake Tribes.
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