Crater+Lake

Eighty miles away from Medford, Oregon is the most natural and deepest lake in the U.S. It is the only national park in Oregon. Its name is Crater Lake. Crater Lake has a rim village.Crater Lake gets around five hundred and forty-two inches of snow per year. It usually starts snowing in October and the snow doesn't melt until the middle of August. Crater Lake is the fifth national park in the U.S. The water in Crater Lake does not evaporate because the water is there when the snow melts and that is how Crater Lake gets its water. The walls next to Crater Lake are about two thousand feet higher than the water in Crater Lake. Some of the highest points of the walls in Crater Lake are Garfield Peak, Lightning Spring, Mount Scott, and Crater Peak. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the U.S. It is so deep and blue people think it is ink. Crater Lake is only one hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean.Crater Lake lies in a caldera or basin. Crater Lake has been named three times. At first it was Blue Lake. The second name it had is Lake Majesty. The third and last name it has and had is Crater Lake. Crater Lake is also very famous for their old man. The Old Man is a giant full grown tree that is bobbing there in the middle of the lake for more than one century. Crater Lake never has had warm water because of all the snow that is there most of the year.

At Crater Lake there is a bus tour. You can go on a hike if you like to walk because it is a very long hike which is about thirteen miles long. There are some places that you can go picnicing in. There are some docks so that you can go boating. There are boating tours and if it is nice in the summer, you might get to go to the island in the middle of the lake. The island's name is Wizard Island. Sometimes if it is nice enough,you can go and walk to the top of Wizard Island. Just be sure to have the boat come back to get you or you could be stuck. In the summer you can go to the rim around the lake and drive the rim in a car. Crater Lake has ninety miles of trail. You would not want to go swimming in Crater Lake because the water is really really cold. Crater Lake is the deepest in the Western Hemisphere and the third deepest in the world.

Crater Lake has a few wild animals. The animals are black bears, deer, marmots, eagles, and hawks.

Crater Lake got started because a volcano errupted and made a 12,000 ft mt named Mount Mazma collapse 7700 years ago. This lake is 2000 ft deep and holds about 4.6 trillion gallons of water. None of the water evaporates, so it won't get any shallower. In 1989 Scientists sent down a manned submarine and found a hydrothermal venting system. They also found a hypoventilating system. [] [|http://www.us-national-parks.net] []