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The Lava Beds National Wilderness is a 28,460-acre (11,520 ha) wilderness area within the Lava Beds National Monument. It was designated by the US Congress on October 13, 1972, with passage of Public Law 92-493. [13] The wilderness protects more than half of the national monument in two separate eastern and western units.
The Petroglyph Point is an archaeological site within the Lava Beds National Monument, located southeast of Tulelake, California.Petroglyph Point contains one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States.
Sáttítla Highlands National Monument is a national monument in the Medicine Lake Highlands of the Cascade Range of Northern California. The monument protects 224,676 acres (909.23 km 2) of forest and mountain habitat in Siskiyou County from development. The name Sáttítla means "obsidian place" in the Achomawi language. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lava Beds National Monument, California, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
The Schonchin Butte Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower on Schonchin Butte, a cinder cone in Lava Beds National Monument.. The Civilian Conservation Corps built a fire lookout at Schonchin Butte during the summers of 1939 and 1940, as part of federal infrastructure development under the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression.
Catacombs Cave is a 6,903 foot (2,104 m) cave in Lava Beds National Monument in California.It is considered one of the most challenging caves accessible in the park. This very long cave is easily entered, but gradually increases in difficulty.
The byway splits at Bartle; there is an alternate route that runs in a northeasterly direction for 46 miles (74 km) through the Modoc National Forest, winding past Medicine Lake before arriving at Lava Beds National Monument. From Lava Beds National Monument the alternate route runs north for roughly 18 miles (29 km), passing through Tule Lake ...
The first 350 feet (110 m) of Valentine Cave is a good example of a lava tube that has almost completely drained. The lava remaining on the floor is mostly pahoehoe; in places it is glassy and lustrous whereas at the cascades it is frothy. Only a small amount of soil and a few scattered collapse blocks litter the tube floor.