Mount Shasta City Park — Attraction in Mount Shasta

Scientifically speaking, water purity is tested by the amount of radiation particles it has attached to the original H2O... and if there are none with a natural process, it's been filtering for at least 50 years. Native locals however, say it's more like a hundred, and I don't argue. When We come for the waters as the ancestors have, we ask permission before accepting it as not just the origins of the Sacramento river, but as the first step back into liquid form of the cycle that goes around Mother Earth and back. It's only called a hippie thing when made acceptable by blond hair and blue eyes doing it, unless done in larger corporate form, as does crystal geyser, and then no longer is it asked as much as it is taken like so many lands, languages, hands and validation of anguish. More Native and Brown/Black Women are taken than crystal geyser bottles are consumed. Still. Yet being consumed by profits over prophets are where our Future becomes doomed. Don't be an Mf Doom appropriator, be the actual soul, take off the metal face with control and stop any signs of any real hater. Ask all for permission and understand that oversimplified rhetoric has kept the middle class on full blast to be last while the disparity gap grows wider not whiter with each ungrateful empty bottle or negative mind wasting that half empty glass. Even if less than half full, there's always been greatness in each gene pool. All Waters and all Daughters are sacred and Divine. Don't waste any of Her, as you would waste a good...

Go to bless the water and enjoy the artists' wares. It has a sacred charm for the locals of mount shasta, and many yogis and spiritual people gather near its waters to engage in "spontaneous activities". As long as City Officials don't get overgumptious, it'll remain a key attraction for the West.

I'd like to see it less as a child's park (not really fitting for the location and theme) and more an artists row. Ancient peoples always gathered near watering holes for festivals and activities, and this tradition is semi-alive and well.

The municipal buildings at the park don't make much sense. It really needs an overhaul. Fewer play gyms, more garden terraces and secret corners.

There are fascinating trails behind the watershed.

The rules against wading and walking on the rocks are almost universally ignored, as they should be. Tepid fears about erosion should not override usefulness, or the right of humans to connect with the nature as it is presented.

Go home forestry department. You're fearful and...

This is an incredible local treasure but I stress the word local - because it should be treated with care for just that reason. The park has a playground, picnic tables, gazebo, large grassy field, various buildings dedicated to senior meals and local community activities. It also holds a spring that is one of the headwaters of the Sacramento River.

For whatever reason you come here, please respect the fact this a community treasure created and maintained by the local community. Please don't leave trash, destroy native habitat (such as the native plants growing around the spring), or make this an unsafe area for family by doing drugs or smoking cigarettes.

This is a great place to enjoy time alone or with family and friends.

There is parking and a bathroom.

Again, respect this wonderful community resource. Don't leave trash. Respect the energy, work, and funding it takes to maintain such a wonderful place where people can relax, recharge, connect, and...