The ship’s cartographers marked a volcanic eruption on their maps of the region ... So on August 6, Mount Shasta’s volcanic history became a little shorter when the 1786 eruption was ...

Deep in the northern California wilderness, nestled among rolling hills and magnificent pines, the Mount Shasta volcano towers above the landscape as a lone sentinel beckoning to those around it.

Mount Shasta, a huge, dormant strato-volcano ... Snow adds winter splendor to the country lanes of McCloud and the rooftop of the historic McCloud hotel. Built in 1915 to house mill workers ...

Richie Fesler, superintendent of public works for McCloud, a community of restored historic buildings on Mt. Shasta’s southern flanks, was at home a few miles away on a recent Sunday when he ...

This is partly because it lies on Mount Shasta’s south-facing slope, but also because the mountain’s steep sides are covered with historic volcanic rubble and ash, which is highly erosive.