Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak, commonly referred to as Mount Lassen, is a 10,457-foot lava dome volcano in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California. Located in the Shasta Cascade region above the northern Sacramento Valley, it is the southernmost active volcano…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: LassenNPS, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 10,335 feet
- Description: lava dome in the Cascade Range
- Also known as: “Lassen Butte”, “Lassen Buttes”, “Lassen’s Butte”, “Lassen’s Peak”, “Lassens Buttes”, “Lawson’s Peak”, “Mount Joseph”, “Mount Saint Jose”, “Mount Saint Joseph”, “Mt. Lassen”, “San Jose *”, “Snow Butte”, and “Snow Mountain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Helen and Emerald Lake.
Lake Helen
Lake
Photo: T1madpaintballer, Public domain.
Lake Helen is a glacial lake or a tarn occupying a cirque at around 8,200 feet in Lassen Volcanic National Park. The lake is located to the south of Lassen Peak and west of Bumpass Mountain in the Shasta Cascades region of Northern California.
Emerald Lake
Lake
Photo: Jmagnuso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Emerald Lake is a small lake located nearby Lassen Peak in Lassen Volcanic National Park, in Shasta County, California. The lake is located about 0.3 mi west of Lake Helen. Highway 89 runs along the eastern shore of the small lake.
Lassen Peak
- Categories: plug dome volcano, lava dome, mountain, and landform
- Location: Shasta County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.48813° or 40° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
-121.50492° or 121° 30′ 18″ westElevation
10,335 feet (3,150 metres)Open location code
84GWFFQW+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 320129927OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Lassen Peak from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lassen Peak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قمة لاسين”
- Basque: “Lassen tontorra”
- Belarusian: “Ласен-Пік”
- Cebuano: “Lassen Peak”
- Chinese: “拉森峰”
- Chinese: “拉森火山”
- Czech: “Lassen Peak”
- Czech: “Mount Lassen”
- Dutch: “Lassen Peak”
- Dutch: “Mount Lassen”
- Esperanto: “Monto Lassen”
- Estonian: “Lassen Peak”
- Finnish: “Lassen Peak”
- French: “Mont Lassen”
- French: “pic Lassen”
- French: “Pic Lassen”
- German: “Lassen Peak”
- Hebrew: “לאסן”
- Hindi: “लैसेन पीक”
- Icelandic: “Lassen Peak”
- Italian: “Lassen Peak”
- Japanese: “ラッセン山”
- Korean: “래슨 산”
- Korean: “래슨피크 산”
- Korean: “래슨피크”
- Latvian: “Lasena smaile”
- Lithuanian: “Lasen Pikas”
- Lithuanian: “Laseno kalnas”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Lassen Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lassen Peak”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pic Lassen”
- Polish: “Lassen Peak”
- Portuguese: “Pico Lassen”
- Russian: “Лассен-Пик”
- Serbian: “Lasen Pik”
- Serbian: “Ласен Пик”
- Slovak: “Lassen Peak”
- Spanish: “Pico Lassen”
- Swahili: “Mlima Lassen”
- Turkish: “Lassen Peak”
- Turkish: “Lassen Zirvesi”
- Vietnamese: “Đỉnh Lassen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Chaos Jumbles and Manzanita Lake.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eagle Peak and Mount Helen.
Shasta County: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Redding, Anderson, Shasta Lake, and Cottonwood.
Curious Places to Discover
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lassen Peak”. Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.