Driving in Crater Lake

Crater Lake has entrance roads approaching it from the west, north, and south. All of these lead to Rim Drive, a 32.4 mile loop road around the lake. Countless pulloffs and developed viewpoints allow nearly constant opportunity to again convince yourself that the lake is, in fact, real. Rim Drive is closed for most of the year due to an incredible level of snowfall. It is only reliably open from July to September, although depending on the year, that range may not hold. When we visited on July 5, 2006, half of the drive was still closed. In 2007, it opened much earlier.