Landforms of Shasta County, California - Lakes of Shasta County, California, Mountains of Shasta County, California, Rivers of Shasta County (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Lakes of Shasta County, California, Mountains of Shasta County, California, Rivers of Shasta County, California, Volcanoes of Shasta County, California, Sacramento River, Lassen Peak, Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds, Mount Tehama, Pit River, Mud Lake, Lake Shasta, Castle Crags, Whiskeytown Lake, Chaos Crags, Spring Creek Reservoir, Lake Shasta Caverns, Lake Helen, Bear Mountain, Modoc Plateau, Bumpass Mountain, Hat Creek, Fall River, Mill Creek, Brushy Butte, Lake McCloud, Horseshoe Lake, Summit Lake, Emerald Lake, Whiskeytown Falls, Manzanita Lake, Burney Falls, Big Cave, Lake Britton, Twin Buttes, Clear Creek, Baker Lake, Potem Falls. Excerpt: Sacramento River - a.new, #quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:5: f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Sacramento River The Castle Crags, a series of granite peaks rising above the upper Sacramento River canyon just to the right. Mount Shasta, the highest mountain in the Sacramento drainage, is seen in the distance.The largest river in California, the Sacramento River's watershed covers a majority of the northern portion of the state and is situated almost entirely within California's boundaries, except for a small portion of Goose Lake's upper drainage basin that extends into southern Oregon. Almost the entire basin lies between the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range on the east and the Coast Ranges and Klamath Mountains in the west. The Sacramento's longest tributary, the Pit River, has the distinction of being one of three rivers that cut through the main crest of the Cascades; its headstreams rise on the western extreme of the Basin and Range Province, east of major Cascade volcanoes such as Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. The other two are the ...