Skip Yosemite’s crowds and explore otherworldly landscapes with lava fields and steaming fumaroles along epic hikes in this California hidden gem.

But visitors still enjoy snowshoe hikes and cross-country skiing ... and plug dome—can be found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, where they literally bubble and steam.

Are you planning a Lassen Volcanic National Park itinerary? It was one of those moments when we realized, with ...

Tucked away in far northeastern California, Lassen offers sweeping grandeur ... naturally dark skies. The park's namesake peak is the one of the largest plug dome volcanoes in the world — a type of ...

Yet here I was, in Lassen Volcanic National Park, trying to figure out how to cover a lot of ... Bumpass Hell is one of the more popular hikes, in part because its views of the southeast mountains are ...

Tired of crowded national parks, or want something new? Here are less visited national parks in California, what months to visit and what not to miss.