Classic winter retreat for an extended family or multiple families. Three common areas make it easy to spread out - read a book in the living room by the propane fireplace, play games in the dining area or play upstairs in the lounging room with foosball and a closet full of kids costumes. Take a snowshoe hike or go sledding across the street. A true escape to focus on family and friends.
Mill Creek is a small community of former US Forest Service cabins only 15 minutes from the entrance to Lassen National Park.
This is our family cabin that we happen to rent out when we aren’t here. It is filled with games, puzzles, books, snow clothes, snow shoes, extra food, drinks and a full medicine cabinet. Our kitchen is completely stocked. We leave baking and cooking supplies and ingredients here for ourselves, but feel free to use what you need. The fridge and freezer are yours to use. You can also leave an ice chest outside the sliding glass doors in the kitchen for extra space.
There are four sleeping areas and bedding is provided. Downstairs there is a master bedroom with attached bathroom with bathtub & shower, one bedroom upstairs with queen bed and a door, the other two bedrooms upstairs are loft style and do not have doors. One loft area has a queen and two full size beds. The other includes two twins that can be pushed together for a couple. There is an additional bathroom with a bathtub/shower off the living room.
TOT Permit Number
P-00001
There is a washer and dryer for your use. There is a bluetooth speaker in the dining room to play music off your cell phone.
Occasionally during a storm, the electricity can go out. We now have a propane generator that can run the fireplace for heat if this happens.
If there is snow on the ground, we recommend you arrive while it is still light out. You will need to park across the street and carry your belongings to the cabin which is approximately 30 yards off the street.
The nearest gas is in Chester, 25 minutes away. We recommend you have plenty of gas before you leave Chico or Red Bluff to head up the mountain.
There is limited cell phone reception in this area. AT&T and Verizon LTE are usually, but not always, good from this location.
We do have wifi, but it a cellular hotspot which means that it is great for email and browsing, but not streaming.
Staying in a cabin like this can be a little extra work at times, but is worth the effort!
Main cabin, deck, campfire ring (you will need to bring your own campfire wood)
Email, texts, calls.
Mill Creek is a small community of 100 former US Forest Service cabins surrounded by Lassen National Forest. Only 15 minutes from the entrance to Lassen National Park and 30 minutes to Lake Almanor.
no public transportation. if you want to go outside the cabin community, you will need a car
No smoking in the house or on the property
Stuff to do
Our cabin time goes something like this:
Eat, read, play, walk, eat, nap, play, eat/drink, play, sleep, start over
games
- Catan
- Ticket to Ride
- Scattergories
- Apples to Apples
- Qwarkle
- Rummikub
- Battleship
- cards - Hearts & Thumper
- dice - Liar’s dice
puzzles
Read
- Lots of books and old magazines around
- Feel free to bring one, take one
snow
- if there is enough snow at the cabin, the hill across the street is a great sledding hill (sled is in the little back cabin)
- if no snow at the cabin, there is likely snow at the Lassen Park south visitor center 11 miles away. drive to the Lassen Park south visitor center. From there you can sled down the hills or snowshoe up the road to the volcanic boiling mud at Sulphur Works. If the visitor center is open, you can get hot chocolate and sit by the fire. They also have a movie with a history of the park worth watching.
- Snowshoes are located in the closet with the curtain downstairs
- you brought your own snow mobiles there is a snow mobile park on highway 36 at the turn off towards Lassen Park.
gas
- the nearest gas is in Chester - 25 minutes away (go down highway 172, turn right on highway 36 which will take you to Chester)
stores
- small market across from Highland Ranch - ~ 5 miles. Go down highway 172 and turn right onto highway 36. Highland Ranch is a few miles down on your right. The market is on the left.
- Holiday Market in Chester - includes a pharmacy
- Ace Hardware in Chester
nice dinner - recommend
- Highland Ranch - only about five miles away. the lavender butter served with the bread is so good. Nice food and ambiance.
walks
- We like to walk down the road . From the cabin turn right towards Mill Creek Resort (which is closed in the winter). At the end of the cabins, you can walk up the road (highway 172) towards Mineral or turn left and walk down the gravel road
No smoking.
