154 Superintendent’s Monthly Report, October 5, 1962, 6.
155 Master Plan for Crater Lake National Park, Chapter 3, Section 2, 5, Master Plans (general) 1940s-60s folder.
156 Master Plan Development Outline, General Development, January 1957, 3; Master Plan for Crater Lake National Park, Chapter 3, Section 1, p. 4.
157 [T.J. Adams], CLNP Trail System, August 25, 1966. According to the list, trails varied in width, with seven of them being three feet, five at four feet, and three at five feet wide.
158 Lennon W. Hooper, National Park Trails: Analytical Report on Trails of the National Park System, March 1973 (Crater Lake data).
159 Crater Lake National Park Interpretive Statement, April 4, 1972, 12 and USDI-NPS, Interpretive Prospectus, CLNP, March 1972, 14. The park’s general management plan appeared in 1977 and omitted any mention of the trail. The labels and sign had been removed by the summer of 1976; John Davis to Ernest Borgman, July 15, 1976 (comments on draft Visitor Use and General Development Plan), 2.
160 The Waysides were removed in 1976 in favor of 14 numbered posts keyed to a booklet; Thomas McDonough, Grayback Motor Nature Trail (Crater Lake: Crater Lake Natural History Association, 1976).
161 USDI-NPS, Wilderness Proposal, Crater Lake National Park (Preliminary), October 1970, appendix, E. The Union Peak Motor Nature Trail proposal also appeared in USDI-NPS, Description of Wilderness Proposal for Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (Preliminary), February 1969. It cited a willingness on the part of the NPS to obliterate more than 10 miles of motorways, while dispensing with plans for two trail shelters (one near the south boundary and the Pacific Crest Trail and the other next to Grouse Hill); the latter appeared in a master plan draft of October 1970, 26-27.
162 Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail Condition Report, August 25, 1969. This alignment is shown as “proposed” in map 106-20003 as part of USDI-NPS, Interpretive Prospectus, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (1973).
163 Dick Griggs, “Few Tread the Oregon Desert,” Klamath Falls Herald and News, July 18, 1968.
164 Robert B. Rea, Forest Supervisor, to Crater Lake Superintendent, July 3, 1972, USFS file code 7310 Buildings and Trails, Pacific Crest Trail folder.
165 Paul A. Larson (Acting Superintendent) to Don Spalding (General Superintendent, Klamath Falls Cluster Office), October 1, 1969, 2.
166 Larry and Lloyd Smith (comps.), Smith Brothers’ Chronological History of Crater Lake National Park,2009 edition, 176.
167 USDI-NPS, Denver Service Center, Resources Basic Inventory for Crater Lake National Park, July 1974, 63.
168 Camping on the Oregon Skyline route through the park had been restricted, at least in theory, to Red Cone Spring and Dutton Creek; Ernest P. Leavitt to Karl L. Janouch, Rogue River National Forest supervisor, November 14, 1949, 1, RG 79, 67A618, Box 4499, File 640 Trails, NARA Seattle.
169 [Resource Management Crew], Backcountry Permit System, 1, typescript insert in resource management binder, 1977, vertical files, park library. Instigated in 1977, the permit system was called Code-A-Site. Self registration boxes were placed where the PCT crossed Highway 62, the crossing of the North Entrance Road, and trailheads for Dutton Creek and Lightning Spring; Backcountry Hiking and Camping typescript [1976] in the 1977 guide, vertical files, park library.
170 Gary Hoskins, Backcountry Camps Progress and Proposal Report, 1979, typescript, p. 1, vertical files, park library. A “pack stock” camp near Bybee Creek soon followed; Crater Lake Backcountry Use, Crater Lake Natural History Association pamphlet, n.d. [c. 1980].
