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Crater Lake National Park

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: Crater Lake OR USA 97604
  • Telephone Number: +1-541-594-3100
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in Southern Oregon whose primary feature is Crater Lake. It was established on May 22,1902, as the sixth National Park in the US The park encompasses Crater Lakes caldera, which rests in the remains of a destroyed volcano posthumously called Mount Mazama. It is the only National Park in Oregon.The lake is 1949 ft deep at its deepest point which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, second in North America, and according to Wikipedias list of lakes by depth, the ninth deepest anywhere in the world.ref group=note>Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately 3000 ft depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly 13000 ft of ice, and the recent report of a 2740 ft maximum depth for 1148|ft to the average depth of other deep lakes, Crater Lake becomes the deepest in the Western Hemisphere and the third deepest in the world. The impressive average depth of this volcanic lake is due to the nearly symmetrical 4000 ft| deep caldera formed 7,700 years ago during the violent climactic eruptions and subsequent collapse of Mt. Mazama and the relatively moist climate that is typical of the crest of the Cascade Mountains.The caldera rim ranges in elevation from 7000 to8000 ft. The United States Geological Survey|USGS benchmarked elevation of the lake surface itself is 6178 ft. The park covers 286 sqmi|sigfig=3. Crater Lake has no streams flowing into or out of it. The lakes water regularly has a striking blue hue and is filled entirely from direct precipitation in the form of snow and rain. All water that enters the lake is eventually lost from evaporation or subsurface seepage.