Recreation

Tehama County is the central point of wide spread recreational areas which provide hiking, camping, scenic tours, hunting and fishing. Game birds abound in nearby foothills and deer hunters find excellent fall sport in the timbered mountains. The Sacramento River and its tributaries furnish hundreds of miles of the best-in-the-west trout, steelhead and salmon fishing. All are easily accessible via scenic drives along state Historic Route 99, State Highway 36 and Interstate 5.
Forty-five miles to the east looms Lassen Volcanic National Park. Established as a national park August 9, 1916, it encompasses 160 square miles of spectacular volcanic exhibits and the impressive Lassen Peak, named for Peter Lassen. This peak stands at the southern end of the Cascade Range mountains and—until the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens—was the only recently active volcano in the continental United States. Its latest eruptions occurred between 1914 and 1917. Many smaller volcanic peaks and fantastic lava fields, fumaroles, hot springs, boiling lakes and other interesting phenomena surround the original crater.