Lassen County – Willow Creeks

Upper Willow Creek, 2013. It was this creek that the various promoters of Eagle Lake project were to use the natural channel to deliver water to the Honey Lake Valley.
Upper Willow Creek, 2013. It was this creek that the various promoters of Eagle Lake project were to use the natural channel to deliver water to the Honey Lake Valley.

No, it is not a typo, but just to point out that in Lassen County there are three Willow Creeks, and over 200 in the State of California. It is also interesting all three Lassen County Willow Creeks flow in a different direction.  First you have Willow Creek in the northern portion of the county, with its headwaters near Hayden Hill as a reference point and flows in a northerly direction. The second Willow Creek begins on the east side of Eagle Lake and flows in a southeasterly direction. The third Willow Creek, the shortest of the the three is located near Doyle and flows in a easterly direction.  This creek, though of late, has been dubbed Willow Ranch Creek, to distinguish it from other Willow Creeks, and so named from the historic Willow Ranch, which is another story.

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