Wilderness designation would save Crater Lake from degrading development plans inside the park, and wilderness on public lands around the park would further protect its integrity. Travel Oregon has ...

The remote park, famous for its blue-hued caldera lake, has seen a steady decline in visitors since 2016, when a record 756,344 people visited during the National Park Service’s centennial ...

The 183,224-acre (74,148-hectare) Crater Lake National Park in Oregon was established on May ... to assign a title and ...

Note: The sole boat tour operator in the park – Explore Crater Lake – will not be running its tours in 2025 nor 2026. Oregon's lone national park, Crater Lake, is arguably one of the most ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama newt) under the ...

Boat tours will be offered again this summer on Crater Lake.

The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the ...

The newts live only in Oregon’s Crater Lake and their populations have crashed in recent years due to the expansion of introduced signal crayfish and warming lake temperatures from climate change.

A black bear was recently seen swimming in Crater Lake and exploring Wizard Island ... provided by NPS) Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield hosted a forum Friday night in Portland on ...