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| VIEW-MASTER REEI.A 1. Crater Lake Lodge 2. Ranger Talk at Sinnott Memorial 3. Wizard Island 4. dark's Nutcracker 5. Hillman Peak and Llao Rock from The Watchman 6. Wizard Island from The Watchman 7. Llao Rock |
VIEW-MASTER REEL 2 1. Tour Boats at Cleetwood Cove 2. Devil's Backbone from Boat 3. Phantom Ship from Tour Boat 4. View from Palisades Point 5. Ground Squirrel 6. Grotto Cove from Skell Head 7. Castle Rock |
VIEW-MASTER REEl 3 1. Mt. Thielsen from East Rim 2. Phantom Ship from Kerr Notch 3. The Pinnacles on Wheeler Creek 4. Aerial View of Lake in Winter 5. Wizard Island in Winter 6. Winter View of Lake and Mt. Scott 7. Cover Picture—Crater Lake in |
| Oregon's only national park, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States. It was first discovered by the Klamath Indians, who thought it was a battleground of the gods and shunned the area. John Wesley Hillman, the first white man here, nearly fell in the lake when he first saw it from Discovery Point, June 12,1853. It still comes as a breathtaking surprise for each of the 500,000 visitors who travel to this unique park each year (there is no other like it in the Park System). The lake is bluer than the deepest blue imaginable, as if 20 square miles of western sky had somehow been caught with-in its mirrored surface. The National Park is located in the lofty Cascade Mountains of south-central Oregon, close to the cities of Klamath Falls and Medford. The Cascades, volcanic peaks all, range from double-crowned Mt. Shasta in the Golden State to the south to Mt. Baker in the state of Washington. VIEW-MASTER REEL A LODGE ON CRATER LAKE'S RIM A large majority of the visitors to the park first reach the rim of the lake at Rim Village. This is a focal point for all park activities: Crater Lake Lodge, built in 1912, and the oldest structure now on the rim, post office, general store, cafeteria, service station, rental cabins, and visitors information center. Judge William Gladstone Steel, who first came to Crater Lake in 1885 and led the movement which eventually gained National Park status for the "Deep Blue Lake" (as Hillman called it) in 1902, is generally regarded as the "father" of Crater Lake National Park. A SINNOTT MEMORIAL OBSERVATION STATION Here, a short walk from the Lodge, park rangers explain Crater Lake's fiery, volcanic origin (see pages 10 and 11 for detailed drawings and description). Sinnot Memorial, a plat- form which actually juts inside the lake's rim, was built in 1930. In the background: Wizard Island, a cinder cone two miles off-shore, Llao Rock on the north rim, and sharp- toothed Mt. Thielsen in the distance. Here, one can appreciate both the history of the park and its scenic beauty. |