58 Thomson, DAR 1925, 103.
59 Thomson, DAR 1926, 115. This lookout preceded the one built in 1952, and came with a cupola, in the style prevalent on the national forests of the Pacific Northwest from roughly 1910 to 1930. The trail’s existence is briefly noted in a chart listing “Principal Points of Interest” as part of Rules and Regulations, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1924), 10.
60 Webber, Report on Construction Activities in Crater Lake National Park, Season of 1928, January 25, 1929, 12, RG 79, Central Classified Files 1907-39, National Archives, copy in Rim Drive binder, Crater Lake National Park Library (hereafter cited as RD/L).
61 Webber, Report on Construction, 10-11.
62 Thomson, DAR 1928, 29.
63 With completion of the Crater Wall Trail so near at hand, Thomson articulated a need for maintenance work elsewhere. He named the trails leading to the Watchman, Crater Peak, Union Peak, and Annie Spring as his top priorities; Thomson, Superintendent’s Monthly Report (SMR), September 3, 1928, 2.
64 Thomson to the Director, June 18, 1923, 1, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 006, File 123, Part 7, NARA II.
65 Ibid.
66 Worth Ryder, Recommendations in General, attachment to Report and Survey of Crater Lake National Park, August 1932, 4, John C. Merriam Papers, Crater Lake National Park Museum and Archives Collections (CLNPMAC).
67 Elbert C. Solinsky, SMR July 1929, 2; Earl Homuth, Acting Park Naturalist, Report of Educational Division, July 31, 1929, 3.
68 Solinsky, Superintendent’s Annual Report (SAR) 1929, 3-4. For additional information about this type of trail at Crater Lake and other national parks, see Erica Owens, National Park Service Cultural Landscape Inventory, Castle Crest Wildflower Trail, Crater Lake National Park, 2001.
69 F.L. Wynd, Park Naturalist’s Report, August 5, 1930; D.F. Libbey, Park Naturalist’s Report, August 15, 1932.
70 “Old Crater Path now forbidden Trek to Surface,” Medford Mail Tribune, July 19, 1930.
71 Robertson, Report of 1931 Construction Activities, November 1, 1931, 2-3, RD/L.
