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Rim Drive is a scenic highway in Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon, United States.It is a 33-mile (53 km) loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake.Due to its unique engineering and the surrounding park landscape, the drive was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
At Fort Klamath, the byway joins OR 62 and continues north for 16 miles (26 km), where it turns onto Munson Valley Road and enters Crater Lake National Park. At this point, the road becomes Rim Drive, a 33-mile (53 km) loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake. At Merriam Point, Rim Drive splits and turns north.
The highway terminates at an intersection with Oregon Route 138 just south of Diamond Lake. The highway does not provide any access to Crater Lake National Park directly; however, the park can be accessed via either OR 62 (all year) or OR 138 (during the summer, when the North Entrance to the park is open).
Crater Lake: Fort Klamath: 90.07: 144.95: Rocky Point, Lake of the Woods: Former Klamath Lake Highway: Fort Klamath Junction: 91.33: 146.98: Sun Mountain Road – Kimball Park: Former Sun Mountain Highway 97.32: 156.62: Modoc Point Road: Former Modoc Point Highway 98.55: 158.60: To US 97 north – Chiloquin, Bend, Agency Lake 102.47: 164.91 ...
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Oregon Route 138 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the city of Elkton and a junction with U.S. Route 97 at Diamond Lake Junction. The highway has several distinct stretches, and is the main east–west highway through Roseburg, and provides access to Crater Lake National Park from the north. The highway is signed east–west.
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.
In the Crater Lake area, winter lasts eight months with an average snowfall of 533 inches (1,350 cm) per year, [full citation needed] and many snow banks remain well into the summer. [14] While most park roads are closed in the winter, the park headquarters, visitor center, and the other Munson Valley facilities are open year-around.