Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (CNN)-- "I commend you for wanting to try the Cinder Cone trail," the park ranger said ominously at the visitor center of Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

Northern California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park is an undiscovered hiker’s dream, and it’s the 31st stop on our 62 Parks Traveler’s quest to visit every park in the U.S. 62 Parks Traveler started ...

LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK, Calif.–The Cinder Cone looks brand-new. Its sides slant gracefully toward the pointed top, 700 feet above the lava-cluttered ground. But this is territory where hot ...

I have lived in Northern California on and off since 2006, for a total of around seven years, and during that time nobody ever told me to go to Lassen Volcanic National Park. This summer I finally ...

A snowy cinder cone on Mount Lassen in Northern California, where University of Oregon researchers collected samples for their study on magma formation. They determined that the water cycle plays a ...

Here, on a Cascade Range morning, a dozen of us are gaping at a large pool of bubbling mud the color of mushroom soup gone very, very bad. A rotten-egg smell fills the air. “Who knows what that smell ...