I’ve been visiting Crater Lake my entire life, as this iconic national park is only a few hours’ drive from my hometown of Glide. Despite dozens of trips there, the first sight of that massive crater ...

Efforts to preserve and rebuild populations of the Crater Lake newt, a tiny, semi-aquatic sub-species of salamanders found ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness and outdoors intern Mariah Johnston talk about how to swim, boat and fish in the waters of Crater Lake National Park for the last time ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the world as a ...

Nestled within the Cascade Range is an Oregon treasure — the great, blue 1,949-foot-deep Crater Lake — Oregon’s only national park and the deepest lake in the U.S. Although it’s a 20-square-mile lake, ...

There’s a mysterious, otherworldly feel to Southern Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. This gem-like lake, nestled high in the Cascade Range, is the deepest lake in North America — 1,943 feet — and ...

Crater Lake National Park offers visitors dramatic views of a volcanic lake surrounded by steep caldera walls. The park ...

CRATER LAKE, Ore.--One of the tourist signs at an overlook here is as striking as the scenery: "You are standing in a volcano." Yet the implicit danger of the sign seems to get washed away by the ...

Not far into the 20th century, on May 22, 1902, Crater Lake became the fifth national park in the United States. Today, it remains the only national park in Oregon. Since the redesignation of the ...

If you’re after a reasonably short Crater Lake hike that you can do in less than an hour and a half (not including stops), then we heartily recommend checking out the Cleetwood Cove Trail. At just two ...