Enjoyed our visit to Bethel Church in Redding yesterday. Today we toured the Lake Shasta Caverns and Lake Shasta Dam. Such beautiful country. The mountain views take your breath away. The caverns are like icicles of stone. The lake is such a nice clear blue and at least 400 ft deep.
Information from wikipedia: Shasta Lake, also called
Lake Shasta, is an
artificial lake created by the construction
of
Shasta Dam across the
Sacramento River in
the
Shasta-Trinity National Forest
of
Shasta County, California,
United States. With a
capacity of 4,552,000
acre·ft (5,615 Gl) at full pool, the lake has an
elevation of 1,067 feet (325 m), and
a
surface area of 30,000
acres (12,000 ha), making it the state's largest
reservoir, and its
third-largest body of water after
Lake Tahoe and the
Salton Sea.
Ten miles (16 km) north of the city of
Redding. Formed by the damming of the
Sacramento River,
Pit River,
McCloud River and several smaller
tributaries,
the lake has 365 mi (587 km) of mostly steep mountainous shoreline covered with
tall evergreen trees and
manzanita. The maximum depth is 517 feet (158 m).
Shasta Dam was constructed between 1935 and 1945, while the lake was formed
in 1948. It became the second largest dam, and tallest concrete dam in the
United States. Known as the keystone of the
Central Valley Project, outflow from
Shasta Dam provides
electricity and
irrigation for widespread areas of California below
the
dam as well as flood control for the
Sacramento River during the rainy season.
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| The view to the Caverns. |
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| Beginning our boat trip to the caverns. |
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| Across the lake to the caverns. |
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| Happy boat trip across Lake Shasta |
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| View from the caverns trip |
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| Icicles in stone. |
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| Waterfall of stone. |
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| Icicles in stone. |
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Curtains of stone.
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| The outside of Shasta Caverns. |
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| Lake Shasta Dam |
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| Shasta Dam |
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| Sacramento river |
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| My big bear. |
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| Sacramento river after the Dam. Wow. |
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