Lassen Volcanic National Park

Wanted: Expert on Lassen Volcanic National Park

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on December 31, 2008 - 5:36am

Wanted: Expert on Lassen Volcanic National Park. Topic: Snowshoeing.

Lassen Volcanic National Park Gets Its First Purpose-Built Visitor Center, and It’s a Dandy

Submitted by Jim Burnett on October 4, 2008 - 5:37am

Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of our oldest national parks, but it has never had anything more than a makeshift visitor center. Until now, that is. A 92-year wait ends today, October 4, when the park celebrates the grand opening of the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center at the park’s southwest entrance.

National Park Quiz 15: Ring of Fire

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on August 13, 2008 - 4:00am

This week’s quiz tests your knowledge of geologic features and processes in the national parks that lie within the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that rings the Pacific Basin. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we'll make you write "convergent boundary" 100 times on the whiteboard.

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Wildfire in the Parks

Park History: How Volcanics Sculpted Parts of the National Park System

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on November 5, 2007 - 6:00am

Talk volcanoes and national parks and folks usually think of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and perhaps Lassen Volcanic National Park. In truth, though, there are at least 13 units of the national park system that have a volcanic past in some form or fashion.