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If you are in this part of California make sure to pay a visit to Backbone Lake. Backbone Lake is a wet location that gets lots of rain; January is the wettest month with most snow; the driest month of the year is July. Now, you may assume that's plenty but there's even more entertaining stuff to do here in the Southern Cascade Range. Cirque Lake is a nearby lake that you could take a look at, and if you came to camp Butcher Gulch Campground is a great spot to
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| | do that. This lake is so wonderful. If you need a location to stay Bailey Creek Cottages is a good choice. For the period of the summertime here at Backbone Lake, high temperatures mostly reach the 80's while night lows are generally in the 40's. The wintertime brings highs down to the 40's, and night lows all through the winter for Backbone Lake tend to be in the 10's. Life's too short to enjoy all the enjoyable stuff near Backbone Lake. On a wonderful day you | |
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obtain a panorama of Flat Top from Backbone Lake, and on a good day you can take a hike along the Heart Lake Twin Meadows Trail. And if that's not enough there's plenty more amusing stuff to do in the Southern Cascade Range. While
you're here at Backbone Lake you can take a hike along the Chaos Crags Trail, and if you're looking for a splendid spree, Lassen Volcanic National Park is quite near. Backbone Lake is a beautiful lake in the Southern Cascade Range.
Have a good hiking adventure along the Bunchgrass Trail; you don't have to go far to enjoy Upper Plantation. This lake is so wonderful. Places like Huckleberry Meadows are good to take a look at. There's so much to do here at Backbone
Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Cutter Place Campground is a great location for that. While you're here at Backbone Lake, you could also have a look at pretty Huckleberry Lake, and paddling on Pit River is so much fun.
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Bailey Creek Cottages, Chester
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34 miles away
Bailey Creek Cottages are located on the Public 18-Hole Bailey Creek Golf Course on the peninsula of Lake Almanor near Chester, California. Stay and play packages are available all through the golf se...
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Best Western Rose Quartz, Chester
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36 miles away
This Chester, California hotel is the perfect mountain get-away, offering a variety of amenities including an outdoor spa, recreation area, complimentary deluxe continental breakfast each morning. N...
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Current weather conditions at Backbone Lake, Southern Cascade Range, Shasta County, California

Local climate location: BURNEY 20 miles away

           
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Coordinates: Latitude: 40.67667 Longitude: -121.6753
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Bunchgrass Trail, Shasta County, 8 miles away 6.4 hiking miles, 1779 feet elevation difference |
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Chaos Crags Trail, Shasta County, 12 miles away 3.4 hiking miles, 929 feet elevation difference |
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Pit River, Shasta CountyCounty, 18 miles away Class III-IV - 6 miles long (Lake Britton to Pit 3 Powerhouse) |
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Pit River, Shasta CountyCounty, 19 miles away Class IV - 7 miles long (Pit 4 Dam to Pit 4 Powerhouse) |
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| MORE STUFF NEARBY:
Butcher Gulch Campground
 | Cow Creek, Butcher Gulch are primative campgrounds for deer and bear hunters. There is nothing there unless you love seclusion and lots of hiking.... |
Logan Lake
 | 13 miles away Logan Lake is pretty much dry these days. Bears use it to wallow in the mud hole that's left.... |
Heart Lake Twin Meadows Trail
 | 13 miles away Twin Meadows was originally named White Meadows and our old family cabin is the one between the meadows. They ran cattle with T.A.Spencer the first pres. of the Tehama Co. Cattleman's Assoc. The forming of the first association was in response to the loss of grazing rights when the park was formed. The shortage of beef during WW1 prompted Woodrow Wilson to state that if necessary they would raise sheep on the lawn of the White House. ... |
Rancheria RV Park
 | 14 miles away 6 PHOTOS RV camping... Cabins... Mountain View... Laundry Room... Creek... Nearby Burney Falls... ...ctivities you can just relax here in the park, watching the ducks in the lake and the fish jumping or fish for our trophy rainbow trout with barbless flies or barbless singe hook spinners. Our lake Catherine is catch and release only.
All of our RV sites are full hookups, which include water, sewer, electric, cable and 2 hours of free wi-fi. We have a rec-hall for our guests to gather for groups or family gatherings. There is a nice area that has picnic tables for gatherings with a large BBQ for our guests to use. Our bathhouse has large showers and stalls, there is a laundry faclilty for the guests convience. A full running restaurant that is open year round from 9am to 7pm. There is a general store. We are located 21 miles from Burney. We have sites located around the lake, pull thrus, back-ins. There are 50 and 30amp sites. Our sites are long so we can accomidate large RV's. There are 3 cabins available at Rancheria RV Park. They have a microwave, television, bathroom with shower, smoke free for your comfort. Call for reservations. We are located on Hwy 89 6 miles west o... |
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