Pinereach
Pinereach is a small town in the coniferous forest of Shasta County, California. It is located thirteen miles north of Lassen Volcanic National Park, directly between Redding and Susanville. The ZIP code in Pinereach is 96071 and the area code 530. The town sits at an elevation of 4,386 feet.
The town of Pinereach centers around the Highway 89/44 juncture, on the slopes of Pinereach Peak. The town is divided into three unofficial sections: "Creekside," the portion of Pinereach on the west side of Highway 89 which encompasses the campgrounds and lodging; "Promenade," the 'downtown' area of town on either side of Feather Lake Highway as it approaches the juncture with 89; and "Hearthside," the residential area that occupies the area between Feather Lake Highway and the south ridge.
Geography
The town is fifteen miles north of Mt. Lassen. Seeing as Mt. Lassen is an active volcano, the landscape in and around Pinereach is definitively volcanic in nature. By road, the town is roughly thirteen miles south of Hat Creek, and about sixty-five miles north of Chester, the largest town in the vicinity.
Industry & Trade
Pinereach's primary industry in the modern day is tourism, though frankly there isn't too much in the Lassen Forest area. It is the southern gateway to the Hat Creek Recreation Area, and many campgrounds surround the town limits. The region is also home to Subway Cave, the largest lava tube formed by the local lava eruption from Mt. Lassen.
History
Pinereach formed in the 1850s as a gold rush town which quickly died off into a stagecoach stop on the trail from Sacramento to Yreka in 1857. It was mostly destroyed by the 1915 eruption of Mt. Lassen, but rather swiftly rebuilt. Over the 20th century its population somewhat recovered thanks to the logging industry, but the tightening of logging restrictions in Lassen National Forest in the 1940s diminished the growth of the town's population.
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