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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.
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 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.
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.
This year, humans have caused 976 fires that burned 900,103 acres while lightning has ignited 423 fires that burned 592,509 acres. Gigantic grass fires on the east side of the state have defined ...
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 lies inside a caldera created 7,700 years ago when the 12,000 feet (3,658 m) high Mount Mazama collapsed following a large volcanic eruption. Over the following millennium, the caldera was filled with rain water forming today's lake. [4] The Klamath Indians revered Crater Lake for its deep blue waters. In 1853, three gold miners ...
There's a full event calendar at Mount Snow for 2023-2024, including a Santa Parade on Dec. 23, and torchlight parades on both Dec. 31 and Jan. 13, the latter in honor of Martin Luther King Weekend.