The Great American Road Trip Challenge~4.5 years · 48 states · one loop
The Pacific Northwest

Stop 2 · Days 471–472

Crater Lake National Park

Crater Lake National Park, OR

An impossibly blue lake filling the caldera of a collapsed volcano — the deepest lake in the United States.

Where to stay

  • Crater Lake Lodge (in-park)

    Historic lodge on the rim — book far ahead.

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You gotta eat this

  • Dinner on the rim

    At the lodge, over the caldera.

The days here

Each day opens its own hour-by-hour page

  1. 471Day 471 — The CalderaFull day · 5h planned
  2. 472Day 472 — North to BendDrive day · 2h drive

What this stop is made of

  • National Parks & Forests