As was the case in ’75.
Right. Oh, it did catch fire once when we were there and somebody got it put out which, in my viewpoint, was a mistake! I think that lodge isn’t significant when compared with Timberline Lodge, or the Chateau at Oregon Caves. So I have my own feelings about what should have happened to the lodge! That lodge was built at a time when travel was very slow, and conditions have changed…it’s only a 20 or 30 minute drive from Fort Klamath up to the rim. You don’t have the need for that kind of facility anymore.
We were there 30 years ago and all these things were being discussed actively at that time. We needed a visitor center, which every area was getting, under Mission 66. Other areas were getting visitor centers and we still had that old building which had been a photographic studio way back. Last time I visited Crater Lake it was still there, after 30 years. You can make all the plans you want to, until Congress gives you the money to do it with, why, you can just go on making plans. I was involved in the planning of Mission 66 projects for Crater Lake and in the writing of master plans—both when I was employed there and later when I was on the master planning team in San Francisco. It was when I was on that one team that the recommendation was made to make traffic on rim drive one way. My very good friend, David Turello came up with that idea and he was team captain and he sold it. But it was kind of “over my dead body” almost.
Just two years ago it got changed back to two-way.
Great!
