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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).
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.
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.
It follows the crater rim approximately 2,500 feet (762 m) from the Garfield Peak trailhead east of Crater Lake Lodge to a point at the west end of Rim Village. View points along the Promenade provide excellent vistas of Crater Lake's blue water, Wizard Island, and the 1,000-foot (300 m) high caldera walls that surround the lake.
In 1917, the Parks Highway Association began marking the route from Glacier to Mount Rainier and added a southern segment to Crater Lake. [2] By 1919, there were annual meetings of the National Park-to-Park supporters. That same year, Charles Goodwin was assigned as Superintendent at Glacier.