September 5, 2020
I was excited to visit Crater Lake, which, at 1,949 feet, is the deepest lake in the United States and the ninth deepest in the world. As its name implies, the lake is in a caldera that was formed by the collapse of a volcano 7,700 years ago.
Crater Lake is less than 10 miles from Diamond Lake, and as we were driving between the two lakes, we noticed a lot of fire damage. The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was one of the most destructive in the history of the state, similar to the 2020 California wildfire season. The fires had started the week we were there, and by the end of the season, over a million acres had burned. These trees had burned in a previous fire, but it gave us an idea of the devastation that the fires would cause in other places.
