Rim Drive of Crater Lake National Park is a 33 mile loop around the volcanic caldera of the namesake lake. The earliest iteration of Rim Drive (Rim Road) was completed by 1918 and the current facility was completed by 1941. Modern Rim Drive is presently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Depicted above is Wizard Island from Rim Drive during the winter of 2016. Modern Rim Drive can be seen depicted below on the 1944 Rand McNally/State Farm Highway Map of Oregon. Part 1; the history of Rim Drive Crater Lake is the volcanic caldera of what is known as Mount Mazama. Presently the peak elevation of Mount Mazama consists of a 8,157 foot high portion of the rim above Crater Lake. Mount Mazama is thought to have been at least 12,000 feet high before it experienced a major eruption approximately 7,700 years ago. The eruption 7,700 years ago was powerful enough to empty the magma chamber beneath Mount Mazama which collap...
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