California is for Adventure on MSN

California’s best caving isn’t a guided tour — it’s a free permit and your pick of two dozen lava tubes

Lava Beds National Monument holds the largest concentration of lava tube caves in North America, and there's no ranger ...
Islands on MSN

Between the Cascades and the Nevada border is NorCal's mountain getaway with camping, hiking, and lava tubes

This underrated national forest is home to one of the best national monuments in the Golden State and highlights wildflower meadows and alpine views.
Oregonian

Caves, petroglyphs, volcanic wonders fill Lava Beds National Monument

Some 500,000 years ago, the earth cracked open at what is today near the border of Oregon and California, spewing out lava that covered the landscape and scorched all that lay in its path. What we ...
Nevada Appeal

The Nevada Traveler: The tragic history of lava beds national monument — Part 2

There is far more to Northern California’s Lava Beds National Monument than its remarkable geological formations and lava tubes. For example, it is the site of the Modoc War, the only Indian war in ...
npca.org

Remembering a Historic Siege in a Rugged Volcanic Landscape

NPCA’s traveling park lover ventures into the northern California desert to Lava Beds National Monument and discovers a history of Indian wars and a picturesque landscape of lava tubes far off the ...
The New York Times

THE MODOC LAVA BEDS.; SECOND LETTER. EXPLORATION OF CAVES NEVER BEFORE VISITED BY WHITE MEN.

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The New York Times

THE MODOC LAVA BEDS.; VOYAGING ON TULE LAKE--SCENES OF LHE LATE BATTLES.

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