Comments on: Crater Lake Is a Big Crater with a Lake in It (Day 16)

By: bkdunn.com » National Parks List — Mostly Visited

bkdunn.com » National Parks List — Mostly Visited — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:44:02 +0000

[...] Crater Lake: visited on road trip. [...]

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:05:16 +0000

I kind of like URL on your screen name.

By: telkontarURL

telkontarURL — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:47:32 +0000

“NTN Blue is now Eco-Blue”
That’s our new advertising slogan in Japan — since we are a tree-hugging type of industrial manufacturing company. Crater Lake would fit right it. We have a famous underwater photographer as the new posterboy (in Japan).
if only I could get “url” off my screen name.

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:26:52 +0000

Wasn’t really a good put-in spot. I *did*, however, do a stare-down with hypothermia by trying to take a bath in the Rogue River a couple hours later.

By: LMac

LMac — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:10:32 +0000

It is VERY blue. Did you jump in?

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:51:28 +0000

I probably came off as too negative — it’s pretty and I don’t regret having gone there. Just that there’s nothing to do once you’re there. You can’t launch your own kayak into the lake, there’s only one place you can fish from (but there aren’t many fish in there anyway), and the hiking doesn’t do anything but give you another view of the lake. It was definitely worth driving around once and then leaving.

By: MD

MD — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:21:53 +0000

The blue of Crater Lake is ’cause its over 2000 feet deep, deepest in NA. About the same depth as the highest peak on it’s periphery. Once a huge volcano much larger than Shasta or Rainier. one of the scenic wonders of the world gmd

By: MD

MD — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:57:20 +0000

You found high elevation, rocks and snow, Oregon — and Crater Lake from less than 30000 feet up — very pretty blue either way! And you’re getting closer to WA —

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:43 +0000

I loved Crater Lake when I was a teenager (which was a weird time for me to love anything). Doesn’t it not have any inlets or outlets? Why doesn’t it look like a giant scummy pond? And it’s also super deep. I’d like to go again someday (in spite of your non-recommendation).