National Parks

I love National Parks, all National Parks. In the US we have 63 National Parks, including more than 400 designated national sites. I’ve been to many, not all, and I’ll probably never make it to all of them. But that’s a bucket list item for me. Today we had a day without traveling, so we could take advantage of visiting Lassen Volcanic National Park. I have wanted to go there since one of my friends posted about visiting there on Facebook. I can’t for the life of me remember who it was.

Lassen did not disappoint. The beauty of Helen Lake, the smell of Sulfur Works, the chaos of Chaos Crags and Chaos Jumbles, the list goes on. We reached 8,511 feet, the highest point on the road. There were lots of places still with snow. We would have liked to have hiked to Bumpass Hell but the trail was closed due to many feet of snow. The good news was that at Sulfur Works the water was still present so we were able to see the bubbling of the hydrothermal activity.

Scott Borchetta has been attributed as saying, “Every day is an adventure, and no two days are alike.” I hope your adventures bring you more joy than you can imagine.