Shasta

Shasta may refer to:

Native American

• Shasta people, a people group native to northern California and southern Oregon
• Shasta Costa, a people group native to southwestern Oregon
• Shasta language, extinct language of the Shasta people
• Shastan languages, extinct family of languages

Geography and locations

California, United States

• Mount Shasta, part of the Cascade Range in California
• Mount Shasta, California, a city located southwest of Mount Shasta
• Shasta County, California, named for the mountain
• Shasta River, a river near Mount Shasta
• Shasta Lake, the reservoir behind Shasta Dam
• Shasta Lake, California, a city near Shasta Lake
• Shasta Dam, on the Sacramento River in California
• Shasta Springs, a former resort on the Sacramento River
• Shasta, California, a former mining town (west of present-day Redding, California), now abandoned
• Shasta State Historic Park, the current state park at the site of Shasta
• State of Shasta, part of an 1854 proposal to partition California into three states

Iran

• Shasta, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Shastan, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

People

• Shasta Averyhardt, American golfer on the LPGA
• Shasta Groene, a young girl from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho abducted by Joseph E. Duncan III

Products

• Shasta (soft drink), a soft drink brand
• Shasta (shampoo), a former product of Procter & Gamble
• Shasta travel trailers, American brand built between 1941–2004

Entertainment

• Shasta (Narnia), the main character in the 1954 C. S. Lewis novel The Horse and His Boy
• Shasta of the Wolves, a 1919 feral child novel and its title character by Olaf Baker
• Shasta McNasty, a television sitcom on UPN. The name was shortened to Shasta before season one ended.
• "Shasta Beast", the twelfth track on the 2006 Eagles of Death Metal release Death by Sexy
• "Shasta", the seventh track on singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's 2004 album Warm Strangers
• Shasta Fay Hepworth, major character in the Paul Thomas Anderson film Inherent Vice (2014) based on the Thomas Pynchon novel by the same name

Other uses

• Shasta (deity), a Hindu deity
• Leucanthemum × superbum or Shasta daisy, a flower
• Shasta (mascot), the name of the University of Houston's mascot
• Shasta Publishers, a 1950s US science fiction publishing imprint
• USS Shasta, either of two ammunition replenishment ships of the United States Navy
• SHASTA, the callsign for Lynx Aviation, based in Denver, Colorado