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  Shasta Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shasta Lake is a reservoir created by the building of Shasta Dam in California, USA.
Shasta Lake is the largest lake in California with a capacity of 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.6 km³).
Ten miles (16 km) north of the city of Redding, with the town of Lakehead its northern shores, Shasta Lake is popular for boating, water-skiing, camping, and fishing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shasta_Lake   (158 words)

  
 Shasta Lake, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shasta Lake is a city located in Shasta County, California.
It is the closest town to Lake Shasta and the Shasta Dam, which are popular tourist destinations.
Shasta Lake is located at 40°40'41" North, 122°22'12" West (40.678167, -122.370003)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shasta_Lake,_California   (409 words)

  
 Shasta Lake Fishing Guide - Shasta Lake Fishing Reports - Lake Shasta - River Pirate Fishing Guide
Cradled by snow capped Mount Shasta, Shasta Lake sparkles like a gem in the sun and is one of the largest and grandest reservoirs on the west coast.
Shasta Lake, formed by the confluence of four great rivers: the Sacramento, McCloud, Squaw Creek and the Pit River, is one of the largest and grandest reservoirs on the west coast.
A lake favorite, German Brown trout are marauders that stay deep in the bowels of Shasta Lake during the warmer months of the year.
www.riverpirate.com /shasta.asp   (694 words)

  
 Antlers Resort & Marina: Lake Shasta Information
Lake Shasta is the home of several families of the Bald Eagle and the Osprey.
Lake Shasta, Shasta Dam and Mt. Shasta were named after the mountain and the many Indian tribes in the north state.
Lake Shasta is the largest manmade reservoir in California.
shastalakevacations.com /shasta.htm   (489 words)

  
 Shasta Lake Vacation Rentals, Hotels, Weather, Map and Attractions
The city of Shasta Lake is a small, friendly town of approximately 9,000, with a very low crime rate and exceptional quality of life.
The lake itself is the largest reservoir in California, with 365 miles of shoreline, surrounded by forests of oaks and pines.
Fishing in Shasta Lake is exceptional, and an annual trout derby is held in the town each year, usually in the month of October.
www.californiavacation.com /regions/Shasta-Lake-California.html   (478 words)

  
 Shasta-Trinity NRA - Shasta Lake Unit Campgrounds
Shasta Lake, with its 29,500-acre surface area and 370 miles of shoreline, gets large numbers of visitors, especially during the summer months.
Shasta Dam is the tallest dam in the United States and the second largest in volume.
The lake supports 21 varieties of fish and is stocked annually with a mix of almost 200,000 rainbow and Eagle Lake trout (10 to 12 inches long) and 50,000 king salmon.
www.trails.com /explore/tcatalog_trail.asp?AffID=mz01&TrailID=HGS410-006B   (150 words)

  
 SMIG -- Shasta Lake Feature Article: September, 1997
Shasta Lake is located in northern California about 12 miles north of the town of Redding.
It is the largest storage reservoir in California, with a surface area of 11,940 hectares (29,500 acres), a maximum depth of 157.6 meters (517 feet), a length of 56 kilometers (35 miles), and a shoreline of 587 kilometers (365 miles).
To calibrate the Shasta Lake modeled water temperatures, five general categories of data were investigated: bathymetry, inflow distribution, inflow temperatures, outflow distribution and meteorology.
smig.usgs.gov /SMIG/features_0997/shasta_w2.html   (2757 words)

  
 Jones Valley Resort - Sugarloaf Resort - Houseboating in California
Shasta Lake is primarily fed by rainfall, not snowmelt, making for very comfortable water temperatures - a heavenly 78-degree average in the summer months.
The lake is at its highest level, and the fish are as abundant as the photo opportunities.
Shasta Lake Resorts LP is a partner with the Shasta Trinity National Forest and is an equal opportunity service provider.
www.shastalakeresorts.com   (459 words)

  
 Wildernet - Shasta Lake - Squaw / Pit Arm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shasta Lake has a surface area of 30,000 acres sprawling an impressive 35 miles with a shoreline of 365 miles.
One of the lake's most popular attractions is the fact that it provides excellent year-round fishing, whether from a boat or from shore.
Shasta Lake is approximately 10 miles north of Redding off Interstate 5.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=CASHPNRA&cu_id=1   (610 words)

  
 california sightseeing with Lake Shasta tours, California caverns, and cave tours in California
A visit to Lake Shasta Caverns is far more than just an exciting exploration of nature's underground magic, thousands of years in the making.
Until 1964, Lake Shasta Caverns were seen each year by only a handful of hardy "spelunkers" who inched their way through steep, restricted natural fissures to view its startling formations.
Here at Lake Shasta Caverns you are given the opportunity to sit back, relax, and enjoy the picturesque scenery that the heart of Northern California has to offer.
www.caladventures.com /ShastaCaverns.htm   (993 words)

  
 Shasta Lake Cam on Lake Shasta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cruise beautiful Shasta Lake aboard your own floating lodge, enjoying and exploring the 374 miles of picturesque shoreline.
Shasta Marina Houseboats are available for rental year round.
We are conveniently located in the heart of Northern California on Shasta Lake, just 20 minutes north of Redding, California and one mile west of Interstate 5.
www.shastalake.tv   (100 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Body found at Shasta Lake thought to be missing Oregon student
LAKE SHASTA – Authorities searching for a missing Oregon college student found a body Thursday that they are confident is the young woman's, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office reported.
A search team found the body on Shasta Lake's Slaughterhouse Island, near where Gina Zalunardo was last seen alive houseboating with a group of fellow Oregon State University students.
Compomizzo said the body was found "off the beaten path" in a strand of manzanita near the island summit and about 300 yards from the houseboat where Zalunardo was staying with members of her sorority.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050512-1841-ca-missingstudent.html   (430 words)

  
 gallery
The lake level is exceptionally high this year and there aren't any muddy banks yet.
The lake is actually a dam, and this is the creek that it pours into.
This is not the same lake that you see at the beginning of this sequece of pictures.
www.snowcrest.net /wendy/Index2Mt.Shasta/gallery.htm   (649 words)

  
 Shasta Lake, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shasta Lake, located on Interstate 5, is the largest reservoir in the state of California with a surface area of 29,500 acres and a shoreline longer than the San Francisco Bay.
Shasta Lake also is home to a wide variety of wildlife species, including 18 pairs of resident Bald Eagles.
Services are available the Shasta Lake marinas and resorts as well as in nearby Lakehead, Redding and Shasta Lake City in Shasta County.
www.shastacascade.org /forest/shastrin/lake1.htm   (163 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shasta Lake offers recreationists a variety of outdoor activities including boating, water-skiing, fishing, camping, picnicking, hiking and hunting.
Shasta Lake is the largest man-made reservoir in California.
Shasta Dam is the second largest and tallest dam in the United States.
www.shastalakecamping.com   (159 words)

  
 Shasta Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity NRA
Shasta Lake forms the core of the Shasta Unit and offers recreationist a variety of outdoor activities including: boating, water-skiing, swimming, fishing, camping, picnicking, hiking, hunting, and mountain biking.
Located 10 miles north of Redding, on Interstate 5, the Shasta Lake Visitor Information Center has been providing a wide variety of visitor information, not only for travelers on the I-5 corridor, but for local residents of Shasta County, since it was first opened in 1981.
From an elevation of 3,540 feet, the lookout overlooks the snow-laced peak of Mt. Shasta to the north, Mt. Lassen on the southeast and the gray limestone exposures in Hirz Mountain itself.
www.fs.fed.us /r5/shastatrinity/recreation/nra/shasta/index.shtml   (299 words)

  
 Spatially Explicit Scope for Growth of Shasta Lake Rainbow Trout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the last issue of the Chronicle, we introduced a "movie" of the interflows in Shasta Lake, a reservoir in northern California.
In this issue, we have included another movie of Shasta Lake that illustrates a preliminary bioenergetics analysis of the effects of the thermal dynamics within the reservoir on rainbow trout, one of Shasta's most important sport fish species.
To calculate scope for growth for fish species in Shasta Lake, equations and coefficients were used from a bioenergetics model developed by Hanson et al.
www.mesc.usgs.gov /products/presentations/scope_for_growth/scope_for_growth.asp   (955 words)

  
 Shasta Dam - ShastaLake.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There is enough water in Shasta Lake to cover the entire state of Connecticut to a depth of 1.5 feet of water.
Shasta Dam is 602 feet tall, 3,460 feet long and 883 feet thick at the base.
Shasta Lake is one of the few in California where visitors can camp along the shore.
www.shastalake.com /shastadam   (2965 words)

  
 At home on the water / Houseboats offer a great home base for enjoying wonders of Shasta Lake
A heavy winter followed by a wet spring has filled Shasta Lake in Northern California, the state's largest reservoir with 370 miles of shoreline and a 602-foot-high dam, and made it the No. 1 recreation lake in the Western United States.
If you haven't seen giant Shasta to the brim, that first view is eye-popping, with water stretching to the forested banks of the deepest coves and lake arms.
Shasta is so big, with four major lake arms and thousands of coves, that no matter what your adventure, there is room for you: water skiing, wakeboarding, swimming, fishing and all boating, from ripping figure 8s on open water with a WaveRunner to sneaking up on wildlife in deep coves in a canoe.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/23/SPG2FDD9981.DTL   (1366 words)

  
 Shasta Lake - McCloud River Trip
Shasta Lake is the largest human-made, recreational lake in California.
In other words, the lake surface, rather than being a huge body of water, is configured with lots of long, narrow bays and coves.
Shoreline camping is allowed on all areas of Shasta Lake, except those posted as closed.
www.trails.com /explore/tcatalog_trail.asp?AffID=mz01&TrailID=CGW038-009   (166 words)

  
 Shasta Lake, California Real Estate
Visible from the City of Shasta Lake are both Lassen Peak and Mount Shasta: both areas offer seasonal snow skiing, snow boarding and hiking.
Shasta Lake and the Dam are a short, five minute drive from the City.
Lake Shasta Caverns is 15 minutes north on I-5.
www.relocate-america.com /states/ca/cities/shastalake.htm   (229 words)

  
 Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (National Park Service)
Lake based recreational opportunities are Whiskeytown’s primary focus during the hot and dry summer months.
Whiskeytown Lake provides 36 miles of shoreline and 3,200 surface acres of water, and is excellent for most water-related activities including swimming, boating, water skiing, fishing and scuba diving.
Whiskeytown Lake was created by diverting water through tunnels and penstocks, from the Trinity River Basin to the Sacramento River Basin.
www.nps.gov /whis   (262 words)

  
 SHASTA LAKE INFO - ShastaLake.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Shasta Damboree is an annual springtime event held in Shasta Lake, California that celebrates the construction of Shasta Dam.
Shasta is the second largest and tallest concrete dam in the United States.
Shasta Caverns began forming over 250 million years ago in the massive limestone of the Grey Rocks visible from Interstate 5.
www.shastalake.com   (2564 words)

  
 Lakeshore Inn and RV, RV Park, Camping and Dining on Shasta Lake, Lakehead, California
Shasta Lake in Northern California offers matchless days of enjoying outdoor activities including boating, the best water skiing and wake boarding surface in the Western United States, renown fishing, houseboating, picnicking, and hiking and biking along the lake and through the expansive forest.
Shasta Lake is the largest man made reservoir in California with 370 miles of rugged, picturesque shoreline that encompasses caverns, forests, rock cliffs, waterfalls, and numerous islands.
Shasta Lake is fed by three major rivers, the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud as well as the abundant streams.
www.shastacamping.com   (206 words)

  
 Shasta Lake offers visitors adventure as well as relaxation
Of the 384 recreation lakes that can be reached by car in California, Shasta has the size, opportunities and mystery that will make it No. 1 in the coming months.
Shasta is located north of Redding, and most people see it for the first time while cruising past Interstate 5 on the way to Oregon, with a rest stop providing travelers a sweeping view.
The lake has 370 miles of shoreline, 1,200 campsites, 21 boat launches, 11 marinas with boat rentals, 1,000 houseboat rentals and 35 resorts.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/03/SP30607.DTL   (930 words)

  
 Shasta County Visitors Travel Guide - Northern California
With mountains on the northern, eastern, and western sides, Shasta County sits at the northern end of the narrowing Central Valley.
One of California's 27 original counties, Shasta County once covered 20,000 square miles, extending from Butte County to the Oregon border and from the summit of the coastal range to Nevada.
Although Shasta produces comparatively less agricultural value than any other Valley county, it can safely be said that without Shasta and the countless acre feet of water dammed by the Central Valley Project (CVP) at Shasta Lake, Central Valley agriculture as we know it today would not exist.
www.shastahome.org /shasta_county.htm   (351 words)

  
 The Shasta Lakehouse
The Shasta Lakehouse is a roomy 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 3,000 sq.
The Lakehouse is located at the center of endless outdoor recreation opportunities, from the snowy top of Mt. Shasta to the sunny shores of Shasta Lake...whether it's boating, fishing, snow skiing, or river-rafting, you'll be close to it all...
Then, after a long day of fun, you can relax in the hammock under the towering pines, lounge around on the private and spacious outdoor patio as the sun sets...
www.shastalakehouse.com   (203 words)

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