Mount Eddy via Deadfall Lakes
Trinity Divide (PCT), Weed · near Mount Shasta / Weed · Shasta Cascade
Hiking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- strenuous
- Route type
- out-and-back
- Distance
- 10 miles
- Elevation gain
- 2,150 ft
- Time needed
- day
- Best season
- July–October · Parks Creek Rd snowbound until ~late June/early July
Permits and booking
- Permit required
- No
- How the permit works
- Shasta-Trinity NF; none (not designated wilderness). Leashed dogs allowed.
- How hard the permit is to get
- 0 of 5
What is here
- Features
- Highest peak west of Shasta (9,037 ft) · Pacific Crest Trail · Deadfall Lakes chain · The definitive Shasta panorama
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Hiking detail
- Intl tip
- Afternoon thunderstorms build fast up here — summit before noon and watch the sky.
The guide
Eddy is the grandstand — the best full-frontal view of Mount Shasta anywhere, earned via the PCT past the swimmable Deadfall La…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mount Eddy via Deadfall Lakes — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.3319, -122.5079