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, ...

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, Ore. -- It's August 8th, 2010, close to midnight. A silence has fallen over the hemlock and pine forest bordering Crater Lake National Park. Then, with an explosively loud ...

Take a dip in Oregon at the five cleanest lakes the state has to offer, where you can fish, kayak, hike, boat, or dive, with ...

is my my next favored rim point of the seven points on Crater Lake's rim that rise above 8,000 feet. To hike to the top of Dutton Cliff, park at the wide spot on Rim Drive, 1.4 miles south of Sun ...

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 ...

Strolling past the visitor center at Crater Lake National Park toward Rim Trail, a wide, easy path that curls along the southwestern edge of the famous water feature, I felt ready to get my first ...

Wizard Island is a cinder cone volcano in Crater Lake. A black bear explored the island. National Park Service Visitors got lucky when they watched a black bear take a swim in Oregon’s Crater Lake — ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

U.S. Air Force footage of an F-15 Eagle flight over Crater Lake, OR including crystal clear views of inflight refueling and F ...