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SHASTA CASCADE The fabulous outdoors, a mystical mountain and a world-famous footbridge INTERNATIONAL GATEWAY Redding Municipal Airport (RDD) has flights from Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is 9 miles (14 km) from the Redding city center TOURISM WEBSITES visitsiskiyou.org shastacascade.com visitredding.com POPULATION 274,000 SHASTA CASCADE by john flinn "LONELY AS GOD , and white as a winter moon," is how the old horse thief Joaquin Miller described Mount Shasta, which has always drawn more than its share of poets, artists, adventurers and New Age mystics. At least two religions have been founded on the flanks of the mountain, which some believe to be a vortex for spiritual activity, and a race of psychically advanced people named the Lemurians is rumored to live inside. Mount Shasta is the focal point of one of California's least-populated regions, a land of high-desert tumbleweeds, majestic rivers and craggy volcanoes. This is where the West Coast's two major mountain ranges—the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades—run headlong into each other. Just to the south of Shasta, Mount Lassen, the southernmost of the Cascade peaks, erupted less than a century ago, spewing ash as far as 200 miles away. Today, pots of boiling mud and steam vents smelling of rotten eggs attest that this volcano is far from dormant. To the west rise the Trinity Alps and Marble Mountains, relatively unvisited gems that are popular venues for fly fishing and horseback trips. To the north, the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge, which extends into southern Oregon, is part of the Pacific Flyway: In the fall its skies are darkened by more than a million migratory birds. City & Town For travelers, Redding was nothing more than a pit stop along Interstate 5 until the opening of the instantly iconic Sundial Bridge across the Sacramento River in 2004. On the lower flanks of its namesake peak, Mount Shasta City sports a main street lined with New Age bookstores and shops selling crystals said to have mystical powers. No less an authority than James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon, once claimed that the pretty alpine hamlet of Weaverville, gateway 146 2013 travel guid e to c al i fo r n ia DIANE N. ENNIS; REDDING CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU TOP CITIES Redding, Mount Shasta City, Weaverville, Weed, Chico, Oroville

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