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Nearby Mammoth Wildfire

South East of Lava Beds on the Modoc National Forest is the Mammoth Fire. For current information please visit

Phones Are Down

We are currently not able to receive incoming calls. If you have a questions, please email us at labe_information@nps.gov. If you have an emergency, please call 911.

White-Nose Syndrome / Cave Permit

Please Do Not bring clothing or caving gear used in caves or mines outside of Lava Beds into our caves. This will help slow the spread of white-nose syndrome, a bat disease that is killing bats outside of the park.

Title	Lava Beds
Park Code	labe
Description	Lava Beds National Monument is a land of turmoil, both geological and historical. Over the last half-million years, volcanic eruptions on the Medicine Lake shield volcano have created a rugged landscape dotted with diverse volcanic features. More...
Location	lat:41.75915823, long:-121.5172189 States: CA Forecast
Contact	530-667-8113 LABE_Information@nps.gov
Activities	Auto and ATV Scenic Driving Astronomy Stargazing Biking Road Biking Camping Backcountry Camping Car or Front Country Camping Group Camping RV Camping Caving Food Picnicking Guided Tours Self-Guided Tours - Walking Hiking Backcountry Hiking Front-Country Hiking Junior Ranger Program Skiing Cross-Country Skiing Wildlife Watching Birdwatching Park Film Museum Exhibits Shopping Bookstore and Park Store
Entrance fees	Entrance - Private Vehicle $25.00 Park Entrance is $25 per vehicle and is good for 7 days. Entrance - Motorcycle $20.00 Park entrance for motorcycles is $20 per motorcycles and is good for 7 days. Entrance - Per Person $15.00 Park Entrance is $15 per person and is good for 7 days.
Campgrounds	Count: 2 Group Campsite The Group Campsite Site is reservation only. Reservations may be made up to 6 months in advance on Recregation.gov. Groups must have at least 15 people with a max of 40. The Group campsite is excluded from the 50% discount for holders of a Lifetime Access or Senior pass. The Group site is open from April 1st to October 31st. Indian Well Campground Regular campsites are first-come, first-severed. The Group Campsite Site is reservation only. Reservations may be made up to 6 months in advance on Recregation.gov.
Places	Count: 50 Attracted to Water Balcony Cave Big Nasty Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Big Painted Cave Black Crater, Tulelake, Ca Blue Grotto Cave Boulevard Cave Bunchgrass Overlook Bunchgrass Trail Start, Tulelake, CA Captain Jacks Stronghold, Tulelake, Ca Captain Jacks Stronghold Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Catacombs Cave Cinder Cones Cinder Cones Schonchin Butte is just one of dozens of cinder cones that dot the surface of the Medicine Lake shield volcano. These common features form when a volcanic vent throws frothy chunks of lava high into the air. They fall to the ground and rapidly build a steep pile of “cinders.” Like many vents across the Lava Beds landscape, different types of eruptions happened at Schonchin Butte over time. After the cinder cone formed, a massive flow of thicker lava poured out f Devil's Homestead Crossing Devil's Homestead Overlook East Wildlife Overlook at Lava Beds Fleener Chimneys, Tulelake, CA Fleener's Chimney - Spatter Cone Fractured Land Fractured Land Lava Beds National Monument is situated between two regions— the Cascade Range and its volcanoes to the west, and the Great Basin to the east. From this vantage point, you have an excellent view of the broad Tulelake Basin and Gillem Bluff, also called Sheepy Ridge (below). These features are the result of a geologic process called extension. Extension stretches the earth’s crust, developing parallel faults resulting in a succession of peaks and valleys, also Gillem Bluff Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Gillems Camp, Tulelake, Ca Golden Dome Cave Heppe Cave Heppe Cave Trail Start, Tulelake, CA Hercules Leg Cave Hopkins Chocolate Cave Hospital Rock, Tulelake, Ca Indian Well Cave Juniper Cave LABE Fee Entrance Booth - North Labyrinth Cave Land of Many Habitats Land of Many Habitats The juniper and sagebrush you see (and smell) around you are a part of a juniper woodland community, one of three plant communities found at Lava Beds. The northern third of the monument is dominated by bunchgrass, sagebrush, and rabbitbrush, while the higher elevations to the south harbor ponderosa pine forest. Immerse yourself in all three to discover the subtle and not so subtle differences. Last meeting of the Peace Commision The Modoc leader, Captain Jack, was caught between peace and war factions. Some Modoc argued that—as in their own tradition—once the leaders of an army were killed, the soldiers would retreat. They pressured Captain Jack to act. Within minutes of a similar attack at Hospital Rock, eight Modoc attacked the commissioners with hidden weapons. When it was over, General Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas were dead, and Indian Agent Alfred Meacham lay seriously wounded. The P Lava Brook Cave Living in Extremes Living in Extremes Lava Beds National Monument is a refuge for a variety of species that live together in few other places on earth. Visit in the parching heat of summer or the blustery cold of winter and you may wonder how any animal could survive in this rugged volcanic terrain. But with patience and luck, it is possible to spot a wide variety of animals that do not merely subsist here, but make a comfortable home in this land of extremes. These animals are specially suited Lyons Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Mammoth Crater, Tulelake, Ca Merrill Cave Missing Link Trail Start, Tulelake, CA Mushpot Cave Mushpot Cave NHA Store Ovis Cave Paradise Alleys Cave Petroglyph Point Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Petroglyph Point, Tulelake, Ca Schonchin Butte Lookout, Tulelake, Ca Schonchin Butte Trail Start, Tulelake, Ca Sentinel Cave Skull Cave Sunshine Cave
Visitor Centers	Count: 1 Lava Beds Visitor Center Lava Beds Visitor Center Lava Beds is home to one visitor center located at the south end of the park, near cave loop road. An entrance station is located at the north end of the park, but is only open in the summer. As you drive through the park you can find information kiosks with park maps at Petroglyph Point, and Gillem's Camp.
Things to do	Count: 0
Tours	Count: 0
Articles	The Klamath Kaleidoscope: Fall-Winter 2023 NPS Establishes NPSage Initiative to Restore Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystems Saving Our Sagebrush Sea Common Garter Snake Yuma Myotis Updated Species Database Will Help Boost Amphibian Conservation Across the National Park System NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Lava Beds National Monument, California Hoary Bats The Klamath Kaleidoscope: Fall-Winter 2024 A New Look at Lava Pillow Basalts Common Raven Kīpukas Sugar Pine The Klamath Kaleidoscope: Fall-Winter 2021 The Klamath Kaleidoscope: Fall-Winter 2022 Common Green Darner Lava Lakes Conversations about Conservation: Eight years of scientific sharing in northern California and southern Oregon Jumping Spider Toby Riddle Fissure Volcanoes Block Flows Cinder Cones Shield Volcanoes Blanket Cave National Youth Park—Activity The Northwestern Bat Hub: Banding Together for Bat Monitoring Across the West Parks, pikas, and physiological stress: Implications for long-term monitoring of an NPS climate-sensitive sentinel species American Black Bear Vaux's Swift Ruffed Grouse Douglas's Squirrel Great Gray Owl UV-C Light Could Control White-Nose Syndrome, but First Let’s Ask the Cave Biota Lava Tree Mold Fossils Merlin Did You Know We Never Hire Women? Scientist Profile: Alice Chung-MacCoubrey, Biologist and I&M Program Manager Checking Lava Beds' Vital Signs Studying the Past and Predicting the Future Using Rat Nests Inflation Structures, Lava-Rise Plateaus & Inflation Pits Rough-legged Hawk Short-eared Owl Forging the Future: Investing in Youth and Seed Collection Changing Patterns of Water Availability May Change Vegetation Composition in US National Parks The Klamath Kaleidoscope: Spring-Summer 2023 50 Nifty Finds #30: So Funny It Hurt Seeds of Success helps post-fire at Lava Beds National Monument Lava Flow Forms Cenozoic Era