Here you will find Tall Trees Grove with the 369 foot tree, and Lady Bird Johnson Grove . Mount Shasta Of all Northern California's wide variety of destinations, the least visited is probably the Northern Mountains . The town of Redding is significant as a service center for the mountain region and is a great base for touring them. The town of Shasta is a former town from the gold boom and has been made into the Shasta State Historic Park . The Shasta Courthouse is particularly evocative of this rather uncivilized period of California history and now houses an intriguing museum.
Hiking trails are aplenty here.
Shasta Lake is one of these lakes as well as an adjacent community, and the world's highest manmade waterfall is here. This was formed by the Shasta Dam which is pretty impressive especially for lovers of hydroelectric engineering. Finally, and further north is the actual Mount Shasta a town named for the mountain which towers adjacent to it. This is California's sixth highest mountain, but looks particularly good because no neighboring peaks come anywhere close to rivaling it in height. Great hiking is available here, and in winter the skiing is also very good.