Shasta Lake, also popularly known as Lake Shasta, is a reservoir in Shasta County, California, United States. It began to store water in 1944 due to the impounding of the Sacramento River by Shasta Dam, the ninth tallest dam in the United States.
A Sentinel-2 image of the lake
Lake Shasta from I-5
Lake from the shoreline
Deer swimming in Lake Shasta
Shasta County, California
Shasta County, officially the County of Shasta, is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population is 182,155 as of the 2020 census, up from 177,223 from the 2010 census. The county seat is Redding.
Image: Shasta Dam Colored
Image: Lassen Peak Large
Image: Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay
Bailey Cove Campground near Lake Shasta within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.