Cleetwood Cove trail descent
— — the one path that reaches the water.
Not only on a wall.
“Cleetwood Cove is the single trail that descends from the rim of Crater Lake to the shore. About 1.1 miles each way, dropping roughly 700 feet through pumice switchbacks on the lake's north side. The climb back is the elevation reversed at 6,800 feet, and people underestimate it. The trail is the only point of access for the park boat tours to Wizard Island. from the studio
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Cleetwood Cove Trail is on the north rim of Crater Lake, in Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County, southern Oregon. The trail runs about 1.1 miles one way and drops roughly 700 feet from the trailhead on Rim Drive down to the lake shore at a small cove. It is the only legal route from the rim to the water and the only embarkation point for the park's concessioner boat tours, including the run to Wizard Island. The trailhead sits at an elevation near 6,800 feet, and the lake surface below holds at about 6,178 feet.
Crater Lake sits in the caldera of Mount Mazama, a stratovolcano that collapsed in a major eruption roughly 7,700 years ago. The lake is fed entirely by rain and snow, with no inflowing or outflowing streams, and reaches a measured maximum depth of 1,949 feet — the deepest lake in the United States and one of the deepest in the world. The water clarity has been measured at depths beyond 130 feet using a Secchi disk, and the colour reads as a deep, saturated blue because the water is unusually pure and the lake is unusually deep.
Cleetwood Cove Trail is typically open from late June through mid-October, depending on snowpack and trail repairs. The park has closed the trail for multi-year rehabilitation work in recent seasons; current status should be checked at the National Park Service site before any visit. When open, the descent is moderate but the return climb is strenuous at altitude, and is often compared to climbing 65 flights of stairs. Swimming is permitted from the rocks at the cove, briefly: surface water temperatures rarely exceed the mid-50s Fahrenheit even in August.