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5 Rim Drive Tips for Drivers
Spectacular views of the
Key
lake, the islands, and the Tour length: 33 miles (53 km).
Tour route surrounding mountains Starting point: Steel Information
Other road unfold at every turn of this Center, on Rim Drive 4 miles
33-mile (53-km) circuit. (6.5 km) north of Rte 62.
When to go: Rim Drive is open
from the end of June to mid-
October, weather permitting.
Stopping-off points: Breakfast, A park ranger with tourists in the Oregon
lunch, and dinner are offered at Caves National Monument
Crater Lake Lodge; snacks are z Oregon Caves
sold in Rim Village. Two-hour
narrated boat trips (late Jun– National
mid-Sep: 10am–4pm daily) Monument
depart from Cleetwood Cove,
at the bottom of a steep n 19000 Caves Hwy, Caves Junction,
1-mile (1.6-km) trail. (541) 592-2100. Open Tours are orga-
nized daily late Apr–early Nov. Hours
vary. No tours offered from early Nov–
late-Apr. & 8 ∑ nps.gov/orca
Visitors on the 70-minute
guided tours of these vast
Rim Drive underground caverns follow
lighted trails past strange
formations, cross underground
rivers, squeeze through giant
ribs of marble, and clamber
6 Cleetwood Trail up and down staircases into
This 1-mile (1.6-km) huge chambers hung with
strenuous trail, which stalactites. Discovered in 1874
Crater Lake drops a steep 700 ft by a hunter chasing his dog into
(210 m), is the only access a dark hole in the side of Elijah
to the lake. In summer, a Mountain, the caves have been
boat tour departs from the formed by the steady trickling
dock at the base of the trail.
J of water over hundreds of
Phantom
Ship 7 Mount Scott thousands of years.
J When the weather allows,
views from the peak x Ashland
extend as far as Mount
Shasta in California. * 20,000. n 110 E Main St, (541)
482-3486. ∑ ashlandchamber.com
8 The Pinnacles
Pumice spires, also known Every year, some 350,000
J as fossil fumaroles, rise theatergoers descend on this
from the caldera’s eastern amiable town. The major draw
Mazama Village base and form this eerie is the Oregon Shakespeare
landscape. Many of the Festival, which annually
spires are hollow. presents a schedule of 11 plays
by Shakespeare as well as by
classical and contemporary
playwrights. Theater buffs can
also see props and costumes
from past performances and
take detailed backstage tours
of the festival’s three venues –
Elizabethan Stage, Angus
Bowmer Theatre, and the
9 Sinnott Memorial Overlook modern New Theatre.
Beautiful views reward the intrepid traveler who attempts the
short descent to Sinnott Memorial Overlook just below the caldera _ Oregon Shakespeare Festival
rim. Here, knowledgeable park rangers give geology talks. 15 S Pioneer St. Tel (541) 482-2111.
n ∑ osfashland.org
For keys to symbols see back flap

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