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Although snow covers Crater Lake National Park for eight months of the year (average annual snowfall is 463 inches (1,180 cm)), the lake rarely freezes over due, in part, to a relatively mild onshore flow from the Pacific Ocean. The last recorded year in which the lake froze over was in 1949, a very long, cold winter.
Crater Lake Lodge is a hotel built in 1915 to provide overnight accommodations for visitors to Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon, US.The lodge is located on the southwest rim of the Crater Lake caldera overlooking the lake 1,000 feet (300 m) below.
Crater Lake — a volcanic caldera lake within Crater Lake National Park, in southern Oregon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crater Lake . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Crater Lake National Park is about four hours away from Portland by car. The park is in southern Orgeon, near Klamath Falls. The nearest airport is Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport.
Since 2002, one of Oregon's regular-issue license-plate design has featured Crater Lake [7] and a one-time plate surcharge is used to support the operation of Crater Lake National Park. [8] The commemorative Oregon State Quarter , which was released by the United States Mint in 2005, features an image of Crater Lake on its reverse.
Its summit is the highest point within Crater Lake National Park, and the tenth highest peak in the Oregon Cascades. [6] A small fire lookout tower stands on the summit, at the end of a trail that zigzags approximately 1,500 feet (460 m) up the mountain. The mountain is named for Oregon pioneer Levi Scott, founder of Scottsburg, Oregon. [7]
The lake's natural beauty made a great impression on Steel. As a result, when he returned from survey trip, he began advocating that Crater Lake be established as a national park. [6] On 22 May 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill making Crater Lake the Nation's sixth
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