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Crater Lake National Park live camera — Oregon
A caldera left by a collapsed volcano, filled with water. Famous for a blue that looks bottomless, and for some of the heaviest snowfall in the country.
Sample August 2026What you are looking at
The camera looks down into the caldera from the rim. What has collected inside it is the deepest lake in the United States.
About 7,700 years ago a volcano called Mount Mazama emptied itself out in a huge eruption and its summit dropped in, and snow and rain have filled the hole since. The water is 594 metres deep. Nothing flows into this lake and nothing flows out — every drop arrived from the sky. With no river bringing in silt, the deep blue shows through as it is. The small island poking above the surface is the top of a newer volcano that grew after the caldera formed.
A single log has been floating upright in the lake for more than a century. It appears in records from 1896 and drifts from one end of the water to the other depending on the wind. The lake became a national park in 1902, the fifth in the country, after one man spent seventeen years campaigning for it.
The caldera rim stands some 300 metres above the water, and there is only one trail down to it.
Pacific time runs 16 to 17 hours behind Japan, so 1am in Japan is morning there.
This eruption happened with people there to see it. The Klamath have a story in which a spirit above the mountain and a spirit below it fought until the mountain came down, so an event of seven thousand seven hundred years ago survives as something handed on by mouth. The ash that fell lies as a layer across a wide part of the northwest, and it is used as a marker when the age of ground is being worked out.
This is snowy country and stays covered for a long stretch. Still camera; nothing at night.
About this camera
| Place | Oregon |
| Format | Still image |
| Time zone | America/Los_Angeles (UTC-8, DST UTC-7) |
| Category | Nature · Volcano |
| Operator | U.S. National Park Service |
| Terms of use | U.S. government work |
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