As of last Thursday, the settled snow base at Crater Lake became the lowest in recorded history. The season is showing signs of strengthening that dubious claim with another week of sunny weather ...

When Mount Mazama, the mountain in which Crater Lake is embedded, erupted, it collapsed in on itself, and over time, filled with rainwater and snow runoff. The resulting hue of the lake is a deep ...

Over the centuries, snowmelt and rainwater filled the yawing crater to create a lake that's impossibly blue, nearly 2,000-feet deep in spots, and ringed by a ragged circle of toothy, often snow ...