Right.
But that was really a neat experience. You had the people in that building and you had good eye contact and we had a member from the ranger staff that would give the “Smoky Bear” talk. It was just, really, what I would call good duty. I certainly enjoyed that.
Our last programs there were held in 1988. It was the last season the lodge was open.
Will they reinstitute that again?
I hope so.
And they’ll reinstitute the Rim Campground?
There are no plans for that. They’ll keep it as a picnic area. After the water crisis of 1975, they shut that campground down and kind of focused everybody on Mazama. I know there’s that old Annie Spring campground across the road. Was that occupied when you came to Crater Lake?
Yes, it was occupied and gradually Annie Springs was phased out as more and more campsites became available at Mazama. We had a real surge of building then. We had the construction of Mazama Campground, and then we had the widening of the road from Annie Springs up to the Rim Village. And that summer we stayed in a mobile home down at Annie Springs, which was quite an interesting summer, to say the least. There was so much construction, and getting to and from the Rim Village, at times, was a real hassle because we had road crews, traffic control, and this sort of thing. But, we survived, and all in all it was a much better road going up to the Rim Village. But there for a period of time it was pretty hectic in terms of getting around to and from Rim Village.
