Lassen Volcanic National Park Bingo

The park's only large hoofed animal. Watch meadows and roadsides at dawn and dusk.

Mule deer are named for their ears, which are about three-quarters as long as their whole head. Those big ears catch faraway sounds and also let heat escape to keep the deer cool in the desert.

Gray bird burying pine seeds, swooping between the trees all over the park.

One nutcracker can hide up to about 30,000 pine seeds in a single fall, in thousands of little buried stashes, and find most of them again months later under the snow. Its memory for hiding spots is one of the best known in the animal world.

The steep 5-mile round-trip climb to the summit of the volcano. Start early; it is all uphill.

Late spring, look on the shady forest floor for a glowing red leafless stalk near melting snow.

The snow plant is one of the first things to appear as the snow melts, sometimes pushing straight up through the last patches of snow, which is how it got its name. Its glowing red makes it easy to spot on the brown forest floor.

Deep-blue crested jay around picnic areas, quick to raid unattended food.

The tall black crest on its head goes up and down like a mood flag. It stands up tall when the jay is excited or alarmed and lies flat when the bird is calm.

Photograph steam rising straight out of the bare, pale ground at Sulphur Works or Bumpass Hell.

Listen for a squeaky bleat in the high rockslides, then find the small round-eared pika.

A pika does not hibernate. Instead it spends all summer clipping plants and piling them under rocks to dry into haypiles, then eats from those piles all winter under the snow.

Lassen has black bears in its forests and meadows. Watch quietly from far off, food packed away.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has about two black bears per square mile, roughly 1,900 bears, one of the thickest black-bear populations anywhere.

Sniff near the steam vents. The rotten-egg smell is sulphur rising from the hot rock below.

The 10,457-foot plug-dome volcano that names the park; it last erupted 1914 to 1917.

The 10,457-ft plug dome that gives the park its name, one of the largest plug dome volcanoes in the world and the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Ran…

Boardwalk over mud pots and boiling pools. Stay on the boardwalk, the crust is thin.

The largest hydrothermal area in the park: mud pots, fumaroles, and near-boiling pools reached by a 3-mile round-trip trail that ends on a boardwalk over the ba…

Watch a mud pot from the boardwalk. It bloops and burps as gas pushes up through wet clay.

Climb the loose cinder cone by Butte Lake for a view down onto the red Painted Dunes.

A symmetrical cinder cone in the park's northeast corner, reached from Butte Lake on a separate access road, not the main Park Highway.

Flat 1.7-mile lake loop with Lassen Peak reflected in calm morning water.

A lake at the northwest entrance with a loop of about 1.7 miles, nearly flat, and Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags reflected in the water in calm morning and evening…

Roadside steam vents and boiling mud a short walk from the car near the southwest gate.

A roadside hydrothermal area a few minutes inside the southwest entrance, where boiling mud and steam vents sit within a short walk of the car, the useful five-…

Lassen has all four kinds of volcano in one park. See how many you can name with a ranger.

Half-mile paved loop past lava blocks the 1915 eruption carried downslope, like Hot Rock.

The ground a May 1915 pyroclastic flow and avalanche stripped bare on Lassen Peak's northeast flank.

Deep, cold alpine lake below Lassen Peak that stays ringed with snow long into summer.

A roadside pullout at about 8,200 ft, the high stretch of the Lassen Park Highway directly below Lassen Peak, where a glacial lake holds snow and ice into July…

Snow piles so deep here it lasts into summer up near Lake Helen. Stand on a patch in July.

1929 stone museum holding Loomis's photographs of the 1914 to 1917 eruptions.

A stone museum built in 1929 at the Manzanita Lake entrance and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, holding Benjamin F.

The year-round visitor center where you pick up the Junior Ranger booklet.

The park's main visitor center and the only one open year-round, at the southwest entrance, with exhibits, the park film, a bookstore, and the Junior Ranger and…

Finish the volcano activities and earn the patch at Kohm Yah-mah-nee.

The big campground by Manzanita Lake at the northwest entrance, under the pines.

The largest campground in the park, at the northwest entrance beside Manzanita Lake, reservable on Recreation.gov in season.

Historic guest ranch in remote Warner Valley with a pool fed by warm volcanic springs.

A historic rustic lodge in the Warner Valley on the park's south side, with a hot-spring-fed pool, dating to the early 1900s.