Alt Text Map of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in California. Whiskeytown Unit is roughly rectangular with curved edges along the west and south borders and stepped sides along north and east. The park is shaded green and the surrounding territory is beige. Whiskeytown Lake, shaded in blue, fills up much of the park's northeastern corner. Extended Description Whiskeytown Lake stretches across the northeast quarter of Whiskeytown Unit. Most of the lake is pale blue but some areas along the shoreline are shown as medium or darker blue. State Route 299, indicated as a red line, enters Whiskeytown Unit at the northwest corner before angling southeast and out the middle of the other side. Route 299 mostly runs parallel to the lake but crosses over an arm that reaches east into the top left corner of the unit. Other roads run around the lake and southeast into the bottom right corner of the park. This description will begin with the sites along Route 299 and north of Whiskeytown Lake, navigating from west to east. The process will then repeat for the roads and sites south of the lake before ending with a full transcription of the legend. North of Whiskeytown Lake State Route 299 curves up and around the northwest lobe of the park before entering near the Tower House Historic District, which is shown in purple. Route 299 passes by the Tower Gravesite and Camden House, which has a self-guiding trail before exiting and curving down to the narrow western arm of the lake. Alongside the lake, an access road reaches down to a sanitary disposal station, campgrounds, marina, amphitheater, and Oak Bottom, which has a boat launch, picnic area, wheelchair access, and water fountain. A little farther east, another access road off Route 299 leads north along the eastern arm to Whiskey Creek, which has a water fountain, picnic areas, and wheelchair access, as well as a nearby boat launch and the Whiskey Creek Group Picnic Area, for which reservations are required. Route 299 exits the park just past the Visitor Center, which has a ranger station, telephone, water fountain, and the Shasta Divide Nature Trail. Beyond the park, Route 299 passes through Shasta State Historic Park. The J.F. Kennedy Memorial Drive parallels the southeast, narrow end of the lake, passing Park Headquarters with a ranger station and the Kennedy Memorial before the Paige Bar Road branches off to travel south. South of Whiskeytown Lake Back in the northeast corner of the park, Crystal Creek Road, represented with a red line, branches off of Route 299 shortly after it enters the park. Crystal Creek Road travels south past wheelchair access, picnic areas, and Crystal Creek, which has primitive campgrounds, before ending in a loop about halfway down the height of the park. The Mill Creek Trail and James K. Carr Trail reach east off Crystal Creek Road. A 4-wheel-drive only road continues south off Crystal Creek Road to pass Coggins Park, which has primitive campgrounds, and exit the lower left corner of the park. Another 4-wheel-drive only road, County Line Road, branches north from Coggins Park to link back up with Route 299 at the western edge of the map. A bit to the east, the Mill Creek Trail branches northward to come close to Route 299 and Clear Creek Vista Trail in the Tower House Historic District. Near the end of the western arm of the lake, the 4-wheel-drive only Mill Creek Road travels south from an area with Pennstocks, a picnic area, Judge Francis Carr Powerhouse, which has a water fountain. South Shore Drive, shown as a gray line, curls along the southern shore of Whiskeytown Lake before ending at a Dry Creek Group Camp, which requires reservations, on the water’s edge. The J.F. Kennedy Memorial Drive branches off of South Shore Drive near the group camp. Memorial Drive and access roads off it pass a Marina with a boat launch and picnic area; Trailer Camp for self-contained RVs only; sanitary disposal station; and Brandy Creek, which has picnic areas, wheelchair access, and a water fountain. Davis Gulch Trail connects one of the access roads and Memorial Drive before the latter curves up along the narrow end of the lake, near Paige Bar Road. That road winds south past Whiskeytown Cemetery to N.E.E.D. Camp- Whiskeytown Environmental School. A dense network of trails stretch across the bottom right corner of the map. Gray access roads reach to Peltier Bridge, which has a primitive campground and is connected to Brandy Creek to the northwest via the 4-wheel-drive only Peltier Valley Road; Horse Camp with a water fountain and primitive campground, and Clear Creek Gorge Overlook with wheelchair access and a self-guiding trail. Mule Town Road, a 4-wheel-drive only road, curves across the bottom left corner of the park. The Princess Ditch Trail and Mule Mountain Pass Trail extend off Mule Town Road and reach south into the Swasey Recreation Area (Bureau of Land Management), which is shown as a brown area. Legend A legend in the lower left corner of the map reads as follows: Dark blue for Area closed to boating, Medium blue for Boating area with restricted speed limit, Thin gray triangle for Distance indicator, Gray line for Unpaved road, White line encased with black dashed lines for 4-wheel-drive only road, and Black dashed line for Hiking trail. Four columns of symbols represent Ranger station, Telephone, Wheelchair-accessible, Picnic area, Boat launch, Sanitary disposal station, Campground, Primitive campground, Backcountry campground, Water fountain, and Self-guided trail. A note here reads “Roads and trails may be closed in winter.”