Crater Lake is a caldera lake and is one of the most spectacular natural wonders of North America. Located in south-central Oregon, Crater Lake is a part of the Cascade Mountain range volcanic arc.

Katie Cornett was on a seven-day solo trip from Santa Monica, Calif. up coastal Highway 1 and into Oregon when she took this photo of Crater Lake in November 2011. "The winter sky and the water ...

Snow lovers patiently waited the opening of Oregon's high country playgrounds this Thanksgiving weekend and were rewarded with enviable imagery. Here's a round up of photogenic Twitter and ...

In Oregon, that’s Crater Lake, with a current annual average of 35 feet. To be sure, snowpacks have been steadily declining even at Oregon’s national park, according to careful ranger records ...

An exploded volcano with a rim at 7,000 feet, Crater Lake gets 42 feet of annual snowfall, transforming the park into a winter wonderland and wilderness during the year’s coldest months. In ...

Let Crater Lake’s striking golden-mantled ground squirrels give you the strength to make it through the workweek. It’s Wednesday. The weekend is a distant memory and a future day in August.

In the winter months, the glimmering lake becomes grey and moody — its true mountain nature revealed. Before Crater Lake was a lake, it was the highest peak in Oregon — Mount Mazama.

Steel Information Center in winter at Crater Lake National Park (USGS) About 500,000 people visit Crater Lake each year. In the summer, visitors hike, take boat tours, trolley tours, swim, fish ...

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, Ore. — Skiing and snowshoeing are not just the best ways to get around Crater Lake in the winter; they’re the only ways. Although the road ...

The northern lights seen from Crater Lake National Park. (Photos courtesy of Tim Hallam) For photography buffs, Hallam snapped the shots with the shutter speed set for a 13-second exposure using ...