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A free guide and library about Crater Lake National Park

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NEW: The Smith History has been revised. Over 50 years in the making, this is the most complete public history of Crater Lake.

Crater Lake’s current weather at Mazama Village 6024′

Long-term weather at Crater Lake

Monthly weather and climate at Crater Lake

Current snow depth at the Munson Valley weather station

Get started: Ranger Anne Spillane talks about Crater Lake.
_{Film thanks to finleyholiday.com}

Take a  hike!

Over 1400 National Park Service photos are now online.

From the  NPS Focus collection, many of these Crater Lake images have never publicly been seen before.

Visiting? What to do at Crater Lake

We’ll help you with auto-touring, bicycling, hiking, camping, swimming, fishing and wildlife viewing – to name a few.

• Visitor Services

   A long and current list of lodging, camping, gas and repairs, restaurants, groceries and HELP.

  Maps and Directions

• USGS maps and historic maps – probably the single largest collection on online Crater Lake maps available

  

• Natural History and Nature

• All about Crater Lake birds, animals, amphibians, geology, climate, plants and everything: nature . We have field guides and research papers, bird checklists and more.

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• Our Online Research Library

  

   A deep library about all things Crater Lake – and then some. Over 4200 pages of documents, research papers, newspaper accounts, historic photos and more.

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• Crater Lake in the News

   Newspaper articles, announcements and all-things Crater Lake from 1865 to the present. We’ve put it all in here, the good, bad and  even a little unflattering.

• Our Own Art Collection

  

  Crater Lake Institute has a growing collection of commissioned art. We’ve commissioned some art to help us educate visitors about Crater Lake and other amazing parks in our area.

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• Research at Crater Lake

  See on-going and past field research documents at Crater Lake.  Much of this is in its own section of our Research Library.

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• The Cultural History of Crater Lake

  

  Our historic photo library of the human side of Crater Lake National Park. Bears used to be common sights at the Park, but not so any more. See how it used to be and learn how we’ve all changed.

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• A LOT of Geology

  We Recommend:
  Crater Lake National Park website	Oregon Paleo Lands Institute	Larry Eifert Painter of American Wilderness