We were at Crater Lake last year about this time and the weather was bad, very cloudy, rainy, and unable to see the lake from the rim. We bought an annual membership card, hoping to return within the year. And so... we did...
Crater Lake is a fresh water lake that is inside a volcano that erupted 7700 years ago. The crater that formed filled with rain water and snow melt. It is the deepest lake in the US, but not in the world. The water is very clear, and is about 1943 feet deep. The color comes from partly the reflection of the blue sky above, and partly from the sun rays, as the color blue in the color spectrum penetrates deep below the water's surface. The other colors, red, yellow do not penetrate below a few feet of the surface. The result is the deepest of blues that we see. Other fun facts is that the lake is about 6 miles across, and it is about a 33 mile drive around the rim of the crater.
As the park says, the typical first word out of people's mouths when they first see the lake is "Wow". We had more than one "Wow" each time we made a stop along the rim drive to see it from a different view.
Here are some pictures....
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One of my regrets about my first 33 years in Oregon was the fact that I'd never been to Crater Lake.
One day, I hope to be able to spend an extended period of time back in our home state, and visit that awesome place with my wife.
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