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Since 2002, one of Oregon's regular-issue license-plate design has featured Crater Lake [7] and a one-time plate surcharge is used to support the operation of Crater Lake National Park. [8] The commemorative Oregon State Quarter , which was released by the United States Mint in 2005, features an image of Crater Lake on its reverse.
Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh-deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of ice, and the recent report of a 2,740-foot (840 m) maximum depth for Lake O'Higgins/San Martin ...
Crater Lake — a volcanic caldera lake within Crater Lake National Park, in southern Oregon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crater Lake . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Crater Lake National Park is about four hours away from Portland by car. The park is in southern Orgeon, near Klamath Falls. The nearest airport is Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport.
The Munson Valley Historic District is three miles (4.8 km) south of Crater Lake and the Rim Village visitor area which is also a historic district (NRHP #97001155). 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 ...
The Old Man of the Lake in 2013. The Old Man of the Lake is a 30-foot (9 m) tall tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896. The stump is about 2 feet (61 cm) in diameter at the waterline and stands approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) above the water.
Construction of the observation station began in the fall of 1930. During construction, Sager spent hours in a rowboat on the lake, ensuring the building blended perfectly into the caldera cliff. As a result, the building provides a spectacular view of Crater Lake and surrounding caldera and mountains, but is virtually invisible from the lake ...
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