Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park is a state park of California, USA, preserving a wilderness of freshwater springs and geologically recent lava flows. Unique in the California state park system, public access is by boat only. It is located in Shasta County, California. The state acquired the land from the Horr Ranch in 1975. There are 3 campgrounds — Horr Pond, Crystal Springs and Ja-She — each with three primitive campsites. Brilliant aqua bays and tree studded islets only a few yards long dot the shoreline. The size of the park is 4 miles (6.4 km) in length, 1 mile (1.6 km) or less wide and has over 13 miles (21 km) of shoreline. At the mouth of the springs, there are remains of Indian fish traps, low rock walls enclosing shallow water that were used to trap sucker and trout by the Ahjumawi. Of the park's 5,930 acres (2,400 ha), more than two-thirds of the area is covered by recent (two to five thousand years) lava flows including vast areas of jagged black basalt.
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