This is the Northern Mountains chapter from Lonely Planet’s California guidebook.

This is California’s wild frontier, where vast expanses of wilderness are divided by rivers and streams, and dotted with cobalt lakes, horse ranches and alpine peaks. Come to get lost in vast remoteness.

• stand agape at geothermal spectacles in Lassen Volcanic National Park
• maps
• wander the mountainside community of Mt Shasta City
• transportation
• restaurants & accommodation
• explore the many caves of Lava Beds National Monument

Coverage includes: Redding & around, Shasta Lake, Mt Lassen & around, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lassen National Forest, Lake Almanor Area, Susanville, Eagle Lake, Quincy, Bucks Lake, Mt Shasta & around, Mt Shasta City, Dunsmuir, Castle Crags State Park, McCloud, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, Lava Beds National Monument, Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges, Modoc National Forest, Weaverville, Lewiston, Lewiston Lake, Trinity (Clair Engle) Lake, Klamath & Siskiyou Mountains, Scott Valley and Yreka.