Crater Lake & McKenzie Pass, OR

This is what's left of a volcanic eruption. The water in Crater Lake is 1943' deep and the cliffs are nearly 2,000 feet tall. It's the deepest lake in the US and ranks 7th in the world.

Look at those colors !! There were many of these clefts in the rock face we passed. We could hear a small waterfall far below this cliff, but the photos were too distant to see it well.

The Dee Wright Observatory is a stone memorial located in the middle of a massive lava flow and offers panoramic views of the Cascade Mountain Range, as far north as Mt. Hood. Each of the openings in the outer wall points to a different mountain in the distance. There are plaques next to the openings that name the mountains. Awesome !! On top is a large brass circular plate with compass points and the names of all the mountains within view (there were about 10 of them). This is 5,325 feet in elevation and all that black stuff, along with the walls of the observatory is lava rock !! The ground is covered in this rock for miles around.