24 In addition to the mountain hemlocks, here also are the gnarled, multiple-trunked WHITE BARK PINES. This is one of the few places in California where this fascinating and photogenic tree can be reached by road. The snow banks seen on the rocky slopes across the ravine frequently last through the whole summer.
WHITE BARK PINE (cones 1½ inch)
(0.3 mile)
25 LAKE ALMANOR AND MT. HARKNESS VIEW SIGN. Warner Valley has been modified by a glacier 1,000 feet thick. Lake Almanor and Mountain Meadow Reservoir, both outside the park, are artificial lakes, part of the Caribou Power System of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Peter Lassen’s emigrant trail from Black Rock, Nevada, ran from north to south through the Lake Almanor basin (Big Meadow) before turning west again.
Highway No. 36 runs between the Cascade Range on the north and the Sierra Nevada on the south.
Landscape
NEVADA MT. MEADOW RESERVOIR LAKE ALMANOR MT. HARKNESS DYER MT. SADDLE MT. READING PEAK KELLY MT. RED MT. WARNER VALLEY
(0.6 mile)