Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park

About Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park

Ahjumawi is a place of extraordinary, even primeval beauty, and most of it is extremely rugged lava rock. The park is located in a wilderness area, but more than two-thirds of it is covered in vast areas of rugged black basalt, including the largest lava flow in the United States, the Great Basin of Utah.

Those who want to travel off the beaten track need good preparation and equipment, and visitors should prepare for their visit accordingly. Make sure that someone knows where you are going and where you are going when you return, as well as what you are looking for and when.

Together they form one of the largest freshwater sources in the country, and the water that comes together is the source of more than 1,000 miles of rivers, streams, lakes and streams.

The park preserves the fresh water springs that flow from the lava, interrupted by lava flows and clearly visible from the shore.

The diversity of wildlife is evident throughout the season, and a wide variety of birds, including birds of prey, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, as well as mammals and reptiles, travel and nest in and around the park. Some of the varied vegetation in the area is surrounded by a number of grasses, shrubs, trees and other plants such as locusts, sparrows, birds and bats.

Visitors can be inspired by the natural beauty of the natural environment of the park, its natural history and natural resources.

Ajumawi (or its variant Achomawi) and its name refer to the people who occupied the area from prehistory to the present. The park is named after the Pit River Tribe, which is recognized by the state as the largest tribe in the United States and the second largest in North America after the Navajo Nation. The Ajumawis have called this land home for thousands of years and have remained in the area to this day, and their descendants are still present in parts of North Carolina.

The English translation of Ajumawi varies from river people for the place where the water meets the river, or in the case of the Pit River, where it flows into the Atlantic. The ajumsawi built traps along the coast to channel rock fish into the freshwater needed to attract Sacramento sucker trout. These traps kept the fish in shallow places where they could be caught for spawning in winter. Once the indigenous people reached a self-imposed fish limit, the traps served as protected spawning grounds, ensuring successful reproduction and the next generation of fish.

The Ajumawi, ajumsawi and their descendants live in an area of 100 square miles and keep this cultural tradition alive for future generations.

In the 1930s, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PGE) acquired 6,000 hectares of land in the Ajumawi area to drive the development of electricity supplies. Horrs bought it in 1944 from P GE and leased the land to a hunting and fishing association and used it as pasture.

After Harry's death in the 1960s, Ivy Horr wanted to preserve land and resources, and California State Park acquired the area that is now a park.

The park is accessible only on foot or by bike, with access to the main entrance of the park at the southern end of the parking lot, and from the northern end it is accessible only by car.