Butte Lake fishing

Butte Lake fishing is on a natural lake. No species or stocking events are on the current agency reports yet.

Illustration, not a photo of this lake
Last stocked
Not in these reports
Plants on record
0
Species recorded
0

Access and facts

Water type
natural lake
Nearest town
Mineral, CA
Shore access
Yes
Boat ramp
Yes
Float tube friendly
Yes
Facilities
camping

Inside Lassen Volcanic National Park with relatively easy access among park waters. Fishing is not permitted in the boat launch area. Non-motorized boats help avoid brushy shoreline willows and alders.

Other places to fish at Butte Lake

Butte Lake shoreline openings

One of the park's easiest-access trout lakes; look for small open casting sections among the willow and alder brush that lines most park lakes. (nps.gov, accessed September 29, 2026)

Float-tube and non-motorized boat water

NPS recommends non-motorized boats to fish past brushy banks that snag shore casts. (nps.gov, accessed September 29, 2026)

About Butte Lake

Butte Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park is a popular park fishing destination with populations of rainbow, brown, and brook trout. Trout have not been stocked in the park since the 1980s; NPS groups Butte with Snag and Horseshoe Lakes as primary trout waters.

Nearest lakes

Camping near Butte Lake

Campgrounds within 15 miles of Butte Lake's mapped point, nearest first: Butte Lake camping (1 mile), Butte Lake Group camping (1 mile), Butte Lake Stock Corral camping (1 mile), Juniper Lake Group camping (7.5 miles), and Juniper Lake Stock Corral camping (7.5 miles), each with its own campground page on campgroundsdb.com.

Straight-line distances.

Public land at Butte Lake

Butte Lake is inside Lassen Volcanic National Park.

It is 0.2 miles outside the edge of Lassen Volcanic Wilderness.

It is 0.7 miles outside the edge of Lassen National Forest.

It is 0.8 miles outside the edge of Caribou Wilderness.

Boundaries from Public Lands DB, part of the same network.

Sources