Related: See what California town was named one of the ... Big Bear Mountain Resort, Lake Helen at Mount Lassen, and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps, but none of those locations crack the top ...

Until Mount St. Helens blew in 1980, Lassen's eruption was the most recent ... From Redding (about 45 miles away), take Calif. 44 east to Calif. 89 junction and continue to Manzanita Lake Park ...

Lassen, who retired from the Navy as a commander and died in 1994, was honored Sunday afternoon by the Naval Helicopter Association Historical Society with a plaque at the Mt. Soledad National ...