Lovely views of Lassen Peak are to be had along the Lake Trail just a few feet from the Entrance Station at this end of the lake. It is a fine area for taking photographs, especially in the afternoon and early evening. Lassen Peak towers 4,625 feet above Manzanita Lake to an elevation of 10,457 feet. The summit notch in the 1917 crater, and the black tongue extending down toward the right is the youngest rock in contiguous United States, pouring out as molten, redhot dacite lava on the night of May 19, 1915.
Landscape
1915 DACITE (SW LAVA FLOW) 1917 CRATER STEAM EAGLE PEAK SKI HEIL PEAK CHAOS CRAGS LASSEN PEAK LOOMIS PEAK MANZANITA LAKE
AUTO TRIPS TO OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST
1. BIG SPRING, SUBWAY CAVE (lava tube), and BURNEY FALLS STATE PARK, 8, 14, and 41 miles respectively north of Manzanita Lake on Highway No. 89.
2. BUTTE LAKE CAMPGROUND and 1½-mile hike over the Old Emigrant Trail to CINDER CONE (Self-Guiding Nature Trail). A 30-mile drive from Manzanita Lake; proceed north on Highway No. 44 for nearly 15 miles, east, and later south, following the signs 15 miles to Butte Lake.
3. WARNER VALLEY and DRAKESBAD: South and east on Highways No. 89 and No. 36 to Chester, then north and west on an oiled road 18 miles to Drakesbad. (Self-guiding Nature Trail).
4. JUNIPER and HORSESHOE LAKES: via dirt roads about 18 miles north from Chester.
