Oak, Pacific madrone, manzanita, western white pine and other plant species of the California coastal mountains dominate the area.

The Konocti Harbor resort and the community of Soda Bay sit directly at the base of the mountain, on the south shore of the lake.

Mount Konocti has an explosive, eruptive history with devastating lava flows ending about 13,000 years ago that formed the mountains from Clearlake Oaks to Ukiah.

[8] The majority of Konocti had been owned by private parties, most notably the Fowler family, which had discouraged exploration and study of the mountain.

[9][10] Pomo legend has it that around the year 1818, after a long drought, the level of Clear Lake dropped so low that a previously unknown cave on the eastern flank of Konocti was exposed.

Although most of the natural caves collapsed or were filled in for safety in the early 20th century, persistent local belief holds that Konocti's central magma chamber is a vast, empty vertical cavern, partly filled with Clear Lake water and connecting with the lake via an underground seep.

This cavern might be the largest on Earth, though its existence is difficult to prove due to the unstable and eroding structure of the volcano's cone.

A B-24 bomber attached to the 566th Bombardment Squadron during World War II was named Princess Konocti by Lakeport-born pilot William H.

Konocti County Park snakes by the remnants of Mary Downen's cabin, a homesteader who lived on the mountain from 1909 until her death in 1942.

A giant "K", standing for Kelseyville and formed by painted rocks on Clark Peak, on the southwestern side of the mountain, was built by boy scouts as an aviation marker.