Lassen Volcanic National Park, a new Park to add to my top ten!
We talked to a ranger at Lava Beds who exclaimed, when they heard we were headed to Lassen next, "Oh, I love that park. It's so beautiful and there's so much to do." Now, I took this not just with a grain of salt, but with a huge lump. I mean after all, we were in a place that I believe would be pretty low on most people's aesthetic scale, if you're interested in volcanology it would rate fairly high but we were talking about a national park with "volcanic" in its name.🙄 I find volcanoes interesting, but …. Not only that, but I'd never heard of Lassen Volcanic National Park before. Not that I'm an expert on all things national park related … but I've heard of, if not visited, quite a few of them. Surely if it was really special, I would have heard of it. So, let's just say I was not overly optimistic about our next stop that was still pretty much in the middle of nowhere, south of Lava Beds, in the North East corner of California. Fo...