{{Short description|Former resort in northern California}} {{use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2025}} thumb|right|Spring House at Shasta Springs '''Shasta Springs''' was a popular summer resort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the Upper Sacramento River in northern California. It was located just north of the town of Dunsmuir, and just north of Upper Soda Springs along the Siskiyou Trail.
The resort was on the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, where natural springs on the property were the original sources of the water and beverages that became known as the Shasta brand of soft drinks.<ref>{{cite book |date=1994 |chapter=Shasta |editor-last1=Jorgensen |editor-first1=Janice |title=Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco01jorg/ |url-access=registration |series= |volume=1: Consumable Products |publisher=St. James Press |pages=525–527 |isbn=978-1-55862-336-1 |access-date=August 10, 2025 |via=the Internet Archive }}</ref><ref name="Mazariegos2007">{{cite book |last1=Mazariegos |first1=Darla Greb |date=2007 |title=Mount Shasta |series=Images of America |publication-place= |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-5572-0 }}</ref>{{rp|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=NAQBfcJgv0QC&pg=PA80 80–81]}}
The resort closed in the early 1950s when it was sold and continues to be owned by the Saint Germain Foundation, and is used as a major facility by that organization.<ref name="Mazariegos2007" />{{rp|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=NAQBfcJgv0QC&pg=PA85 85]}} It is no longer open to the public and the lower part of the resort – the bottling plant, the train station, the incline railway, the kiosk and the fountains – are all gone. The falls that were visible from the railroad tracks and what ruins are left of the lower part of the resort are all overgrown by blackberry bushes.
Angel Trail and Mineral Spring Trail in this private property leads down to the railway track near couple of small falls. The famous Mossbrae Falls is on the other side of the bridge, crossing the Sacramento River.<ref name="Harrell2022">{{cite web |last1=Harrell |first1=Ashley |date=September 23, 2022 |title=A religious group is strangling access to Calif.'s most beautiful waterfall |url=https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/most-beautiful-waterfall-california-17452293.php |work=SFGate |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924024410/https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/most-beautiful-waterfall-california-17452293.php |archive-date=September 24, 2022}}</ref>
==References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{commons category-inline|Shasta Springs}} *[http://www.saintgermainfoundation.org Saint Germain Foundation home page] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK3a5o21GY4 Youtube video] history, construction, facilities, and the final 1950's sale *[http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/shspring1.html Collected Images of Shasta Springs Resort] *[http://shastasprings.com/Resort Collected Images of Shasta Springs Resort] *[http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/cal07.Html The Railroad stop at Shasta Springs] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051120142146/http://www.siskiyous.edu/Library/Shasta/literature/LegendShastaSprings.htm Native American legend of Shasta Springs]
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Category:Mount Shasta Category:Buildings and structures in Siskiyou County, California Category:Defunct resorts in California Category:Springs of Siskiyou County, California