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Start at 1. Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center

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Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway, California

The 30-mile park highway the way the park numbers it, south to north: steam vents in the heart of a lost volcano, a blue lake named for a painter, the road's high point at the foot of Lassen Peak, and the ground the 1915 eruption tore apart. Seasonal: open to cars roughly June to October.

27 min of audio · 29 miles · Read the transcript

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    Getting started

    1. Start in the right placeThis tour begins at Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center. Start while parked; the first story plays when you arrive.
    2. Let's hear itSelect this phone as the car's Bluetooth audio source and set a comfortable volume. Download the tour while you still have signal.
    3. Stories meet you thereYour phone's location starts each story automatically. Music flows straight into the narration. Keep this page open; it keeps the screen awake for GPS.
    4. You're ready to exploreSeasonal tour: the park highway (Hwy 89) is open to cars through the park only in summer and fall, roughly June to October, and closes with the first big snow (on 2026-10-30 it closed for the winter at Sulphur Works and the Devastated Area). Check nps.gov/lavo alerts before you go. Park at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center by the Southwest Entrance (off Hwy 36), download the tour first (cell service is spotty), then press Start. The tour follows the highway 30 miles north to the Loomis Museum at Manzanita Lake. Entrance fee applies; the park is cashless.

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    Facts from Lassen Volcanic National Park (NPS) pages, including the park's Highway Audio Tour transcripts, and from USGS Fact Sheets 2014-3119 and 101-02. Music: Beethoven, Symphony No. 4, II. Adagio, Skidmore College Orchestra via Musopen (public domain, Wikimedia Commons). Narration is AI-generated. Not an official National Park Service product.