Castella, CA

Castella is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the upper Sacramento Canyon of Shasta County, California, United States. Castella is located 46 miles north of Redding on Interstate 5 and is home to Castle Crags State Park. Castella has a Chevron gas station/store and a post office. Located in the Shasta Cascade area of Northern California, Castella sees many visitors and has a number of summer homes in the area. Visitors use Castella as a base to engage in nationally recognized trout fishing in the nearby Sacramento McCloud and Klamath, Rivers, or come to see and climb Mount Shasta, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Castella, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Castella, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Castella is home to Castle Crags State Park.