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Tips for Drivers
Tour length: 33 miles (53 km).
Starting point: Steel Information
Center, on Rim Drive 4 miles
(6.5 km) north of Route 62.
When to go: Rim Drive is open
from the end of June to mid-
October, weather permitting.
Stopping-off points: Meals are
offered at Crater Lake Lodge and
Annie Creek Restaurant near
Mazama (Jun–mid-Oct); snacks
are sold in Rim Village. Two-hour
narrated boat trips (late Jun–mid-
Sep: 10am–4pm daily) depart
Tourists departing on a boat tour from Cleetwood Cove, on the from Cleetwood Cove.
north shore of the lake

5 Rim Drive
On this 33-mile (53-km) circuit, spectacular
RIM DRIVE vistas of the lake, the islands, and the
surrounding mountains unfold at every turn.
6 Cleetwood Trail 7 Mount Scott
This 1-mile (1.6-km) When weather allows,
strenuous trail, which views from this peak –
drops a steep 700 ft at 8,929 ft (2,722 m) the
(210 m), provides the highest point in the
only access to the lake. park – extend as far
In summer, a boat tour as California’s Mount
Crater Lake J departs from the dock Shasta, located 100 miles
at the base of the trail. (160 km) to the south.

8 The Pinnacles
J An eerie landscape of pumice spires, known as
J
J
Rim Village Phantom fossil fumaroles, rises from the caldera’s eastern
Ship base. Many of the spires are hollow.
9 Castle Crest – Wildflower Trail
Spectacular wildflowers bloom in July and August
alongside this easy-to-walk 0.4-mile (0.6-km) trail.
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0 Sinnott Memorial Overlook
Key Breathtaking views reward the short descent to this
Tour route point just below the caldera rim, where park rangers
Other road give geology talks.

For keys to symbols see back flap

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