Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA
A short, low-gain walk to a seasonal wet meadow.
Overview
Map & elevation
Plan your hike
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Lassen Volcanic Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Lassen Volcanic National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Juniper Lake: Beach or Long Loop“You’re nearing Juniper Lake’s north-shore day-use area, where a gravel-and-sand beach looks across the water toward Mount Harkness.”
Plays on the road 1.4 mi from the trailhead in the Parkwolf Lassen Volcanic Tour Guide.
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Trail guide
Cameron Meadow is a short named spur in the Juniper Lake area. The mapped line is about 1.18 miles one way; walking back the same way makes 2.36 miles round trip. Allow about 1½ hours for the spur itself, before any approach from the road. It is low-gain, with about 127 feet of measured rise. The payoff is the edge of a wet meadow with a seasonal wildflower reputation; the path surface, individual species and bloom dates are not established.
The mapped spur begins at its junction with Grassy Creek Trail. That is not a confirmed car-side trailhead: no source establishes a legal foot approach from the Juniper Lake road end or a parking point for this junction. Confirm access and parking with park staff before setting out; do not count the 2.36 miles as distance from the road. A 2017 account gives a 1.7-mile one-way figure from “June Lake,” a starting name that does not match this mapped Juniper Lake corridor, so that distance is not combined with the spur.
Wildlife
103 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
44 sightingsBald EagleMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
348 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
17 sightingsSandhill CraneMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
47 sightingsGreat Blue HeronMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
12 sightingsGreat EgretMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Lassen Volcanic. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
ModerateRed Cinder Cone Trail8.8 mi · 5 hr · 1 mi awayA remote 8.8-mile traverse through the Red Cinder Cone corridor.
ModerateJuniper Lake Loop6.4 mi · 4 hr · 1.4 mi awayA remote 6.4-mile circuit around a high-elevation lake.
ModerateHorseshoe Lake Trail2.6 mi · 2 hr · 1.4 mi awayA short forest hike to a lakeshore beneath Lassen's skyline
ChallengingRainbow Lake Loop13.4 mi · 8.5 hr · 1.4 mi awayA remote high-country loop among three tucked-away lakes
ModerateGrassy Creek Long Loop6.9 mi · 4 hr · 1.4 mi awayA ridge-and-creek circuit through Lassen’s quiet Juniper Lake forest.
ModerateGrassy Creek Short Loop5.8 mi · 3.5 hr · 1.4 mi awayA 5.8-mile meadow loop with one faint cutoff to find.
ChallengingJuniper Lake, Cinder Cone and Red Cinders Loop22.3 mi · 11 hr · 1.4 mi awayRemote 22-mile loop linking lake country, crater views and red cinders.
ModerateInspiration Point Trail1.5 mi · 1.1 hr · 1.4 mi awayA brief climb to a ridge above Juniper Lake
Sight · 1 mi awayHorseshoe LakeA trout lake people have fished since 1936Sight · 1.2 mi awayInspiration PointA short, steep climb earns a wide volcanic panorama.Sight · 1.4 mi awayJuniper LakeA coarse-sand beach, cool swimming, and trailheads share one shore.
Sight · 2.6 mi awaySnag LakeA backcountry lake born from Cinder Cone’s lava.
Campground · 2.7 mi awayJuniper Lake CampgroundCamp beside the lake, after six rough dirt-road miles.
Sight · 4.6 mi awayCinder ConeClimb the loose cone for a crater and lava-bed panorama.
Picnic area · 4.7 mi awayWarner Valley Day Use AreaA trailhead picnic stop for Lassen's hydrothermal corner.
Campground · 4.7 mi awayWarner Valley CampgroundA remote, wooded base for Warner Valley's trail network.Parkwolf’s Lassen Volcanic ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
