Background: I had seen a picture of a friend standing in front of a waterfall, and I thought: I must go there! After discovering that the waterfall, McArthur-Burney Falls, eponymous with the state park, was a relatively close drive from Lassen Volcanic National Park, I seized the chance and was so glad I spent the…
After the hike at Chaos Crags, I wanted to catch the sunset at Manzanita Lake. And boy, what a treat. This is the view I had while eating my dinner. There’s an ethereal beauty attached to long summer days, and it’s a nice sigh of relief to watch the sun go down. And even after…
The trailhead is at an interesting location, with a slight turnout on the left hand side when heading to the Manzanita Campground. It looks like a random pull-out section and when I finished my hike, some cars passed by wondering what I was doing at such an odd location. (There is a sign confirming that…