Once upon a time, Highway 36, took a long windy route to make the ascent over Morgan Summit—though one can still travel the old route, which is now Highway 172.  If you do, one comes across the Mill Creek Store and restaurant. The community and resort originated as the Mill Creek Campsite by the Lassen National Forest. In 1924 the forest service surveyed for a planned 25 summer homesites, a store and resort. E.J. Foster and Leon Cordy of Cottonwood (Shasta County) leased the store and resort site, and built a store and several cabins. The forest service would expand the summer homesites to 118.

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