Noble Pass Route

The tablet was paid for by B. F. Loomis and his wife, and Loomis is much of the reason people know what Lassen looked like awake: he photographed the peak in eruption in 1914 and 1915 and campaigned for the national park created in 1916. In 1931 the couple set this bronze where the emigrant road of 1852 crossed the ridge, the point where wagons first saw the Sacramento Valley, now under the park highway. A printed Park Service wayside beside it tells the trail again for today's drivers.

What the plaque says

Mt. Lassen 10,451 feet This tablet marks the route of those early pioneers who, in 1852, first went over The Noble Pass linking the Humboldt-Nevada road with Shasta and northern California, and their road is followed at this locality by The Park Highway Dedicated to the pioneers of northern California by Mr. & Mrs. B. F. Loomis Sponsored by the Shasta Historical Society MCMXXXI

Where it stands