In years past, even the Park Service proposed drilling a tunnel and blasting roads down to Crater Lake. And a local congressman, inspired by a visit to Disneyland, once proposed a giant aerial gondola ...

This coming summer will be the last chance to swim or take a boat tour in the waters of Crater Lake for an extended period. Cleetwood Cove Trail, the only legal pathway to the shoreline of the ...

Note: The sole boat tour operator in the park – Explore Crater Lake – will not be running its tours in 2025 nor 2026. Oregon's lone national park, Crater Lake, is arguably one of the most ...

On Friday, Matt Hoffman, chief meteorologist with KDRV-TV in Medford, wrote on Facebook that Crater Lake’s snow depth “now ...

The famed Crater Lake in Oregon will soon be closed to the public for years, so if it's been sitting on your bucket list for while, now might be the time to plan that trip. Here's what's happening ...

Lonely Planet puts Crater Lake at the top of its list of experiences that belong on every visitor’s must-do tally. The result of a volcanic eruption 7,700 years ago, the caldera of Mount Mazama ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama newt) under the ...

In fact, it’ll be officially closed off by the end of this summer. SFGATE reports how Crater Lake National Park in Oregon — which is home to the deepest lake in the country — is closing down ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is the only place on Earth that's similar to Jezero crater on Mars. Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater.