Loomis Museum

As you enter the northwest edge of the park on Highway 89, you’ll almost immediately find the Loomis Museum (at the visitors center) and Manzanita Lake. Inside the museum, you’ve got a wonderful opportunity to learn about the known history of Mount Lassen [1], focusing heavily on the eruptions photographed by Mr. B. F. Loomis.

Prints of those rare and stunning photos have been blown up and captioned to create these exhibits; the museum was named for the photographer, who later became a major player in the push to make Mount Lassen a national park.

This interpretive museum offers a rare chance to see, through photos, the devastation and following stages of regrowth of the ecosystem of volcanic slopes.