Lassen Volcanic National Park, about a four-hour drive north of San Francisco, feels like a secret getaway.

Reporting from LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK — The moment had arrived. That magical wisp of time at sunset when the earth is transformed by golden light and the sky takes on kaleidoscopic colors. We ...

LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK (CBS SF) -- It quietly built up magma for 27,000 years before beginning a 7-year-long series of eruptions on May 30, 1914 and today geologists closely monitor Northern ...

This post was originally published in 2015. One afternoon in the spring of 1914, Mount Lassen awoke with a cough, the sudden burst of steam and ash from its 10,500-foot summit startling residents of ...

I have lived in Northern California on and off since 2006, for a total of around seven years, and during that time nobody ever told me to go to Lassen Volcanic National Park. This summer I finally ...

Lassen Peak, shown here, is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia to northern California. This vast range is ...

Here, on a Cascade Range morning, a dozen of us are gaping at a large pool of bubbling mud the color of mushroom soup gone very, very bad. A rotten-egg smell fills the air. “Who knows what that smell ...