Mount Scott summit (highest point in park)
— — the lake seen from above, all at once.
Not only on a wall.
“Mount Scott is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park, a 8,929-foot remnant of the older edge of Mount Mazama, the volcano whose collapse made the lake. The trail climbs the east side at a steady grade — roughly two and a half miles, about a thousand feet of gain — and ends at a small fire lookout. From the top the caldera is laid out whole, the deepest lake in the United States below in a perfect blue, the Klamath Basin to the east, the Cascades to the north and south. from the studio
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Mount Scott rises to 8,929 feet on the eastern rim of Crater Lake National Park, the highest point in the park. The peak is an older satellite cone of Mount Mazama, the stratovolcano whose climactic eruption roughly 7,700 years ago collapsed the caldera that now holds Crater Lake. The lake itself, at 1,949 feet deep, is the deepest in the United States and one of the deepest in the world. The summit holds a small 1952 fire lookout still used in fire season by the National Park Service.
The Mount Scott Trail runs about 2.5 miles each way, gaining roughly 1,250 feet from the trailhead at 7,680 feet on East Rim Drive. The grade is steady, the path well-cut, and the standard time round-trip is three to four hours. East Rim Drive normally opens in July once the road crew clears the winter snowpack — annual snowfall at park headquarters averages around 41 feet — and closes again with the first sustained storms in October. The park entrance fee is $30 per vehicle, valid seven days.
At 8,929 feet the summit sits a thousand feet above the rim road and most of the park's other trails, and the view is whole rather than partial — the full caldera in one frame, the Klamath Basin dropping east toward the marsh, and the Cascade chain running both north and south. Air at this elevation thins enough that an unhurried pace pays off; the lookout cabin holds the wind in summer and the high desert beyond catches the late light long after the lake itself has gone into shadow.