Crater Lake

Crater Lake was awesome. It was something I have always wanted to see and it turned out to be much larger than I thought it was. Approx. 6 miles across! Crater lake was actually Mt. Mazama, a volcano that collapsed on itself 7,000 years ago. Over thousands of years, it filled with water and is the deepest lake in the US, with a depth of over 1900 feet! There is actually a island in the lake that was an old lava dome. It's called Wizard island and you can buy a boat ride ticket out to the island. We didn't get a chance to do it but I think it would have been really interesting.


The day we were there, the view was somewhat hazy due to a lightning-caused fire close by in the park but it was still amazing.

We came across a strange looking area in the park. An area with almost no trees. This area of Oregon is covered with trees. It turns out it was a pumice desert. The pumice is so thick from the Mt. Mazama eruption that the trees cannot grow.