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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.
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.
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 ...
Crater Lake National Park remains open and is accessible from Highway 62 on the western and southern routes. The Middle Fork Fire has burned 4,718 acres and is 0% contained.
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.
Oregon Route 230 is an Oregon state highway which runs along the western edge of Crater Lake National Park, in rural Douglas County, Oregon. It is known as the West Diamond Lake Highway No. 233 (see Oregon highways and routes ), and is 24 miles (39 km) long.
A rare August snow flurry in the Sierra Nevada Mountains led to some of Lake Tahoe’s most popular ski resorts announcing their projected openings for the 2024-25 ski season.