[Illustration: JEFFREY PINE (cone about 5 inches)] [Illustration: SNOWPLANT (red)] [Illustration: COW LILY (yellow)] 65 REFLECTION LAKE, elevation 5,880 feet. A few hundred feet ahead is the road to the Reflection Lake Picnic Ground. There tables, fireplaces, and rest rooms are available for free visitor use. Reflection Lake gets its name from the fine reflections of Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags to be seen in it from near the picnic ground. It is an excellent place for photography, especially in the afternoon or early evening. On summer evenings nighthawks can be seen cruising over the lake, emitting their unique harsh cries and their startling “whoomm” sound in flight. Bats on the wing also are seen in the evenings feeding on insects. (0.2 mile) [Illustration: BROWN BAT] [Illustration: NIGHTHAWK] 66 On the down hill side of the road is MANZANITA LAKE, elevation 5,845 feet. This lake is young, formed by the Chaos Jumbles landslide. The water level was raised a few feet in 1912 by the Northern California Power Company, for electric power development purposes by the construction of a small earth dam at the lake’s southwest extremity. Like most of Lassen’s lakes, it is well stocked with trout. In the fall large numbers of waterfowl, including Canada geese, stop here en route to their wintering grounds. The lake derived its name from the abundance of greenleaf manzanita on its shores. This shrub can be seen across the lake to the south. (0.2 mile) 67 MANZANITA LAKE ENTRANCE STATION. Vehicle entry permits and information may be procured daily during the summer season. Lovely views of Lassen Peak are to be had along the Lake Trail just a few feet from the Entrance Station at this end of the lake. It is a fine area for taking photographs, especially in the afternoon and early evening. Lassen Peak towers 4,625 feet above Manzanita Lake to an elevation of 10,457 feet. The summit notch in the 1917 crater, and the black tongue extending down toward the right is the youngest rock in contiguous United States, pouring out as molten, redhot dacite lava on the night of May 19, 1915. [Illustration: Landscape] 1915 DACITE (SW LAVA FLOW) 1917 CRATER STEAM EAGLE PEAK SKI HEIL PEAK CHAOS CRAGS LASSEN PEAK LOOMIS PEAK MANZANITA LAKE AUTO TRIPS TO OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST 1. BIG SPRING, SUBWAY CAVE (lava tube), and BURNEY FALLS STATE PARK, 8, 14, and 41 miles respectively north of Manzanita Lake on Highway No. 89. 2. BUTTE LAKE CAMPGROUND and 1½-mile hike over the Old Emigrant Trail to CINDER CONE (Self-Guiding Nature Trail). A 30-mile drive from Manzanita Lake; proceed north on Highway No. 44 for nearly 15 miles, east, and later south, following the signs 15 miles to Butte Lake.