Staying inside a national park overnight can be pricey. Lassen Volcanic National Park accommodations has always been sparse. The Sifford’s Drakesbad Resort that the family owned from 1900 to the 1950s, would eventually cater to the well-heeled residents of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Snells who owned Juniper Lake Resort east of Drakesbad, was primitive by Drakesbad’s standards. Nonetheless, one could rent a tent  there for one night in the 1930s for four dollars. For a couple it was seven dollars. While that might not sound a lot today, the average prevailing wage just happened to be four dollars a day!

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