The diversity of wildlife here is truly an enthusiast's dream. There are several maintained campgrounds available for public use within the National Forest boundaries. Campground and Summer Recreation and Winter Recreation information can be obtained on Shasta Home. To the Top Climate Summer temperatures range from 75F to 105F. Winter temperatures range from 15F to 60F. Temperatures below 15F are very rare. Rainfall averages from 20-55 inches.
Snow fall in the valley is light and of short duration.
The Shasta Indian Tribe occupied a vast area encompassing the upper reaches of the Salmon, Klamath, Scott, Shasta, and McCloud Rivers. During the winter, women, elders and children occupied multiple-family houses while the hunters went into the surrounding mountains for venison. The Shastas also subsisted on dried fish, acorns and a bulb called apaw. Each spring new brush huts were made near the mouths of creeks entering the rivers, creating numerous small villages. The men fished for salmon and hunted deer with obsidian-tipped arrows.