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Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam [1] on the Sacramento River, in far northern California, near the town of Mt. Shasta, California. [2] It is the site of local recreation, as well as being used for watershed protection and flood control .
Siskiyou County (/ ˈ s ɪ s k juː / ⓘ SISK-yoo) is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. [3] Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. [5] It falls within the Cascadia bioregion. [6] Siskiyou County is in the Shasta Cascade region ...
The Siskiyou Wilderness is a federal wilderness area designated by the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Originally, the land area was 153,000 acres (620 km 2 ) [ 1 ] The Northern California Wild Heritage Act of 2006 added 30,122 acres (121.90 km 2 ) for the current total of 182,802 acres (739.77 km 2 ).
Siskiyou County Flood Control & Water Conservation District and Siskiyou Power Authority: Dam and spillways; Impounds: Upper Sacramento River: Height: 209 ft (64 m) Length: 1,100 ft (340 m) Width (base) 200 feet (61 m) Reservoir; Creates: Lake Siskiyou: Total capacity: 26,000 acre⋅ft (32,000,000 m 3) Surface area: 430 acres (170 ha)
The first non-Native Americans entered the Shasta Cascade region by coming south along the Siskiyou Trail from Oregon, or north along the Siskiyou Trail from central California or the San Francisco Bay Area. These earliest explorers were probably British and American fur-trappers and traders in the 1820s and 1830s, although it is also possible ...
English: View across Lake Siskiyou in Northern California to Mount Shasta. At 4317 m, the stratovolcano is the second highest peak in the Cascade Range . Italiano : Il Monte Shasta è uno stratovulcano della California settentrionale , qui osservato dalle sponde del Lake Siskiyou .
Reservoirs in Siskiyou County, California (5 P) Pages in category "Lakes of Siskiyou County, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Siskiyou Mountains are a coastal subrange of the Klamath Mountains, and located in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States.They extend in an arc for approximately 100 miles (160 km) from east of Crescent City, California, northeast along the north side of the Klamath River into Josephine and Jackson counties in Oregon.