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Park Less Traveled: Lassen Volcanic National Park

By Robert Blundell

Lassen Volcanic National Park was never on my radar of places I had to ride in California — and apparently it’s not on a lot of other’s even to visit. According to USA Today, of the 63 National parks in the nation, Lassen Volcanic ranked a lowly 43 for visitation with only about 446,000 visitors in 2022, compared to over 3 million annual visitors for Yosemite.

But when a colleague told me about the opportunity to ride the length of this park without cars I had to go.