Pinnacles Overlook

The Pinnacles are chimneys formed when hot ash cooled after the big eruption. Formed during the same eruption that gave birth to the lake, these colorful volcanic spires are tucked away in the park’s southeast corner.

Pinnacles Overlook is a colorful ...

Phantom Ship/Phantom Ship Overlook

Phantom Ship Overlook Nestled against the shore, Crater Lake’s “other island” escapes detection by many park visitors. Though it resembles a small sailboat, the island is as tall as a 16-story building. It’s made of erosion-resistant lava, 400,000 years old— ...

Annie Spring/Lost Creek

The New Deal public works employment and funding agencies, in particular the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) and Public Works Administration (PWA), provided a large infusion of men and funds to the park to enable management to complete a significant portion ...

Munson Point

During the summer of 1872 a widely publicized visit of Crater Lake was undertaken by Lord William Maxwell of Scotland and A. Bentley of Toledo, Ohio. Accompanied by a Dr. Munson, the post surgeon at Fort Klamath, they headed toward ...

Olympic Hot Springs

Andrew Jacobsen was the first to report the discovery of the hot springs on Boulder Creek in the early 1890s. In 1906 Jacobsen returned to the hot springs, retrieved a bottle of its water to prove his discovery to others, ...

Mount Olympus

The Olympic Mountains were formed between 15 million and 55 million years ago when two crustal plates collided and drove the mountains up from the ocean floor. For eons, wind and rain washed sediments from the land into the ocean. ...

La Push / Mora

Severe currents, rocks and infamous weather doomed many ships along this wild coast. Shipwrecked mariners told of hardships endured on the rugged and desolate shoreline, and of dramatic rescues, some involving heroic assistance from local tribes. Memorials north of Rialto ...

Sunshine Point Campground

During the Depression the NPS continued to define park visitors as all those people who visited the park for pleasure. The actual number of people in the park was considerably higher as hundreds of men came to work in emergency ...

Camp Muir

The public shelter and guide shelter at Camp Muir were built between 1916 and 1921 by joint Mountaineers and park service effort. A leaf, a flower, a stone - the simple beauty of nature filled John Muir with joy. Muir ...

White River: “Pink Salmon”

Large spots and pronounced dorsal hump distinguish this salmon [Pink Salmon] from other species. Appear silvery with white belly when spawning. There is no reference to Pink Salmon having occurred in the park historically, but several recent observations of this ...