Shasta County
Location and importance
This town, founded in 1872 and situated on the upper reaches of the Sacramento River and on the edge of the Sierra Nevada, is particularly important because of its favorable position as a starting point for numerous excursions into nearby districts: Lake Shasta
(its famous caves are only 16mi/25km away), the 14,170ft/4,317m high Mount Shasta (about 6mi/10km away), Whiskeytown Shasta Historic Park with its gold-digging past (6mi/10km) and Shasta Trinity National Forest. Redding is also well-placed traffic-wise being at the junction of several highways: the U.S. 5, which runs south to San Diego via the county capital of Sacramento, the CA 299 to the Pacific coast via Eureka and the CA 44 to Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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