Crater Lake National Park has announced that the Cleetwood Cove Trail will close to the public no later than November 1st.

The Cleetwood Cove Trail, the only public access to Crater Lake’s water, is closed for the 2025 season and will remain closed for at least two years for a major rehabilitation project.

The water of Crater Lake creates two islands. The lake's fleet of tour boats lands on Wizard Island, allowing passengers to debark and hike the trial to the summit. The Phantom Ship, the lake's other ...

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 ...

This item has a permanent location under the Hiking category on the right side of the Outdoors home page. Click here to see it with a full color map by Oregonian artist Steve Cowden. The scene: The ...

The first time I laid eyes on Crater Lake National Park was eight years ago, when my husband and I had just finished our big move from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest. Since our cross-country ...

Note: The sole boat tour operator in the park – Explore Crater Lake – will not be running its tours in 2025 nor 2026. Oregon's lone national park, Crater Lake, is arguably one of the most beautiful ...

Explore the diverse wildlife of Crater Lake, including deer, elk, black bear, bobcats, pikas, and rare amphibians in Oregon’s ...

Search efforts continued over the weekend for a boy who went missing nearly two decades ago in Crater Lake National Park. On October 14th, 2006, 8-year-old Samuel “Sammie” Boehlke and his father, ...