We have now moved on to the Crater Lake area in Southern Oregon and will be here 14 days. The landscape as you can see changes widely during the drive. We arrived at Crater Lake RV park around 4 pm.
Today we drove up to Crater Lake National Park and drove the road that circles the caldera. The road is 33 miles long and has around 30 pullouts for different views. The lake is around 1,900 feet deep and is the deepest lake in the states. There is no water running in or out of the lake and all of its water comes from rain and snow. The area averages 530 inches of snow each year. The park service only completely opened the road around the lake yesterday. Crater Lake was formed by a volcanic eruption of Mt. Mazama. Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island on the west side of the lake.
Panoramic View of the lake.
Vidae Falls
Phantom Ship
Wizard Island
The next day we drove up to Crater Lake and tried to get some tickets for a boat tour of the Lake. Their policy is to sell half of the tickets online and the other half can be purchased one day in advance at the lodge, store, and lake kiosk. All of the reservable tickets are gone for the remainder of our stay so we need to show up each day and see if we can purchase tickets for the next day. They hadn't started ticket sales until Saturday so we will see how this works out. The only boats you see on the lake are tour boats and science vessels. There is only one way to the lake shore which is a steep 1.1 mile hike. At the shore, you may board a boat, go fishing, or swimming. Later, we stopped by the Rogue River Gorge and the Natural Bridge on the way back from the lake. The Natural Bridge is a lava tube that the river enters into and comes back out of about 50 yards downstream.
Pearsoney Falls
Today we took a walk through the small town of Prospect, Oregon. There is a walking trail that leads you to these pretty falls.
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