Box Canyon Dam
Box Canyon Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Upper Sacramento River impounding Lake Siskiyou reservoir, in Siskiyou County, northern California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lake Siskiyou.
Lake Siskiyou
Reservoir
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam on the Sacramento River, in far northern California, near the town of Mount Shasta, California. It is the site of local recreation, as well as being used for watershed protection and flood control.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Shasta and Shasta Springs.
Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta is an incorporated town in Siskiyou County in the Shasta Cascades region of California, at the southwestern foot of Mt. Shasta.
Shasta Springs
Hamlet
Photo: Edward H. Mitchell, Public domain.
Shasta Springs was a popular summer resort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the Upper Sacramento River in northern California. It was located just north of the town of Dunsmuir, and just north of Upper Soda Springs along the Siskiyou Trail. Shasta Springs is situated 4 miles southeast of Box Canyon Dam.
Dunsmuir
Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dunsmuir is a city in Siskiyou County, California. It is on the upper Sacramento River. Its population is 1,707 as of the 2020 census, up from 1,650 from the 2010 census.
Box Canyon Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Trinity Mountains,Shasta National Forest,Siskiyou County, California
- Category: gravity dam
- Location: Siskiyou County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.279° or 41° 16′ 44″ northLongitude
-122.32875° or 122° 19′ 44″ westElevation
3,035 feet (925 metres)Open location code
84HV7MHC+JGOpenStreetMap ID
way 90260990OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
“Box Canyon Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Box Canyon Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “Box Canyon Dam”
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