Crater Lake

My niece once said it is one of the places you should visit once in your lifetime.  We went there last summer on our camping trip.  The history of Mount Mazama is a fascinating one too, and the Lake is now a US National Park.

Some Facts.

Crater Lake is located in Southern Oregon on the crest of the Cascade Mountain range, 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, created when the 12,000 foot (3,660 meter) high Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago following a large eruption.

Generous amounts of winter snow, averaging 533 inches (1,354 centimeters) per year, supply the lake with water. There are no inlets or outlets to the lake. Crater Lake, at 1,958 feet (597 meters) deep, is the seventh deepest lake in the world and the deepest in the United States. Evaporation and seepage prevent the lake from becoming any deeper.

The lake averages more than five miles (8 kilometers) in diameter, and is surrounded by steep rock walls that rise up to 2,000 feet (600 meters) above the lake's surface.

Height: 2,487 meters (8,156 feet - Hillman Peak)

Links:
USGS
National Park Service