Mount Shasta

This airticle is aboot the volcano in Californie. For the toun, see Mount Shasta, Californie. For ither peaks namit Shasta, see Leet o peaks namit Shasta.

Mount Shasta (Karuk: Úytaahkoo or "White Muntain") is a potentially active volcano at the soothren end o the Cascade Range in Siskiyou Coonty, Californie. At a elevation o 14,179 feet (4321.8 m), it is the seicont heichest peak in the Cascades an the fift heichest in Californie. Mount Shasta haes a estimatit volume o 85 cubic mile (350 km³), which maks it the maist voluminous stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc.

Mount Shasta
Aerial view o Mount Shasta frae the wast
Heichest pynt
Elevation	14,179 ft (4,322 m)  NAVD88
Prominence	9,772 ft (2,979 m)
Isolation	335 mi (539 km)
Paurent peak	North Palisade
Leetin	Warld maist prominent peaks 96t North Americae heichest peaks 48t North Americae prominent peak 18t US maist prominent peaks 11t North Americae isolatit peaks 28t US heichest major peaks 34t Californie heichest major peaks 5t Californie fowerteeners 5t Californie coonty heich points 5t
Coordinates	41°24′33″N 122°11′42″W
Geografie
Location	Siskiyou Coonty, Californie, U.S.
Parent range	Cascade Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Shasta
Geology
Age o rock	About 593,000 years
Muntain teep	Stratovolcano
Volcanic arc	Cascade Volcanic Arc
Last eruption	1786
Climbing
First ascent	1854 by E. D. Pearce and party
Easiest route	Avalanche Gulch ("John Muir") route: talus/snaw climb
U.S. Naitional Natural Laundmerk
Designatit	1976

The muntain an its surroondin aurie are managit bi the U.S. Forest Service as pairt o the Shasta–Trinity National Forest.