Crater Lake Research Paper

As soon as I feel the sun’s warmth on my face peeking over from behind the rim of Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, I am wide awake. I open my tent to see deep, vivid reds and pinks, along with bright oranges and yellows and the luminous sun in the middle of nature’s masterpiece. Although it is only around forty degrees this morning, I can feel my heart burning with the desire to explore the various park features. It is only my first day at Crater Lake, and I can already feel myself beginning to love this unique, wonderful place. For breakfast, I decide to walk down to the lodge to go to their restaurant called “Annie Creek Restaurant and Gift Shop”. As I enter the restaurant, I catch a whiff of their outstanding burgers and shakes, and I automatically know what I will get for lunch. Once I sit down, I order the “Garfield Peak”, off of the breakfast menu, named after Garfield Peak on the south end of Crater Lake. After eating that delicious meal, I am excited to
I had gotten some of the most outstanding pictures I had ever taken of the lake from being on the shoreline, and being surrounded by nature had made me feel wonderful. As I approach the boat that would take me to Wizard Island, I begin to grow very excited. I sit down in the boat and open my notes to the beginning, where it states in my messy handwriting that Crater Lake was established on May 22, 1902 by president Theodore Roosevelt. I look at the other jotted down notes, such as how it’s the deepest lake in the country, how William Gladstone Steel devoted his life into making Crater Lake a national park and held many lake surveys that provided scientific support, and how it was formed 7,700 years ago by the collapse of Mount Mazama. After reading these notes and scribbling down about my encounter with the bobcat, I look up to see we have reached Wizard