Kalispel Buffalo (q̓ʷyq̓ʷay)

Well-worn paths traversed the Pend Oreille River Valley long before the first explorers passed through it.  The trails provided the Kalispel people (Qlispélixʷ) with important links to seasonal food sources, community relations, and trade.

The trail to the buffalo, a ...

Camas (Sx̣ʷéʔli)

The Kalispel Tribe’s Pend Oreille Valley homelands are rich in natural resources. The river bottoms, forested hillsides, and mountains held an abundance of game species, ranging from water fowl to caribou.

Buffalo hunts to the plains east of the continental divide ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Historic Centre of Siena

Siena is the embodiment of a medieval city. Its inhabitants pursued their rivalry with Florence right into the area of urban planning. Throughout the centuries, they preserved their city's Gothic appearance, acquired between the 12th and 15th centuries. During this ...

Loomis Museum

In 1927, Benjamin Loomis built a museum on his choice property situated between Manzanita Lake and Reflection Lake. He named it the Mae Loomis Memorial Museum in honor of his only daughter who had died seven years earlier at ...

Sulphur Works

In September 1865, the Red Bluff Independent reported that T. M. Boardman and some partners had made arrangements with Dr. Mathias B. Supan of Red Bluff to develop one of these sulphur deposits into a working mine. Supan, a medical ...

Dream Lake

With the property now in Sifford’s control, the family planned to operate the ranch as a tourist resort, providing camping spots along Hot Springs Creek where Drake had rented campsites, a limited number of rooms (in Drake’s house), meals, mineral ...

Warner Valley

As early as the 1860s, sheep and cattle ranching operations along with dairy farming became prominent enterprises in the local economy. Ranchers used the grasslands in the high meadows on the north and east sides of Lassen Peak, near Battle ...

Peter Lassen

Lassen Peak was named for Peter Lassen, one of the first white settlers in the northern Sacramento Valley and the discoverer of a route through the mountains called the Lassen Trail. In the decade and a half that Peter Lassen ...

Manzanita Lake

Butte Lake, Snag Lake, and Horseshoe Lake are all popular fishing destinations in the park with populations of rainbow, brown, and brook trout. Kings Creek and Grassy Swale Creek both have populations of brook trout as well. The most popular ...

California Spotted Owl

The California spotted owl is one of three subspecies of spotted owls that occurs within the United States. The Mexican spotted owl is found in the southwestern states and Mexico. The Northern spotted owl occupies western Washington, Oregon and California. ...