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While browsing Wikipedia, came across a very awesome place (day access only) at Crater Lake, "Wizard Island"

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Wizard Island viewed from the west rim of the caldera.
Highest point
Elevation 6,933 ft (2,113 m) [1]
Prominence 755 ft (230 m) (varies with water level)[1]
Coordinates 42°56′19″N 122°08′44″W [2]
Geography
Location Klamath County, Oregon, U.S.
Parent range Cascades
Topo map USGS Crater Lake West
Geology
Mountain type Cinder cone
Volcanic arc Cascade Volcanic Arc
Last eruption About 4600 BC[3]
Climbing
Easiest route Trail[4] with boat access

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Crater Lake and Wizard Island in 1997

Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet (2,113 m) above sea level, about 755 feet (230 m) above the average surface of the lake. The cone is capped by a volcanic crater about 500 feet (150 m) wide and 100 feet (30 m) deep. The crater was named the "Witches Cauldron" by William Gladstone Steel in 1885, who also gave Wizard Island its name at the same time.[5] The land area of the island is 315.85 acres (127.82 ha).

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Crater Lake bathymetry survey showing Wizard Island and Merriam Cone

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Geologic map of Wizard Island and the lake floor

Wizard Island was created after Mount Mazama, a large stratovolcano, erupted violently approximately 7,700 years ago, forming its caldera which now contains Crater Lake. Following the cataclysmic caldera-forming eruption, which left a hole about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep where the mountain had once stood, a series of smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet (820 m) above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.

Another large cinder cone, Merriam Cone, is located in the northeast part of the lake. Although Merriam Cone rises about 1,400 feet (430 m) above the caldera floor, its summit is still 505 feet (154 m) below the average lake level. Its surface features and lack of a crater indicate that Merriam Cone formed under water.

Access

Current public access to Wizard Island is available only during the summer months when boat tours on Crater Lake are in operation. The tours depart from Cleetwood Cove at the north end of the lake, and circle the lake in the counterclockwise direction, stopping at a dock at Governors Bay on the south side of Wizard Island.

Passengers on boat trips early in the day may choose to disembark on the island, but must be prepared to spend the entire day on the island if subsequent boats are too full to take on additional passengers. Those on late afternoon boat trips are not permitted to disembark.

A final boat is dispatched at the end of each day to pick up any stragglers since overnight camping is not permitted on the island. Two hiking trails are available on Wizard Island, one of which switchbacks up the flanks of the cone and circles the crater on top while the other trail meanders from the dock towards the western end of the island.



Seems like this would be an amazing place to do daytime drumming, other sorts of communal activity.

I have no idea regarding tourist density, but if planned well, that could be an epic location with possible nearby camping.

P.s. pics not coming thru. Ughhhh
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Indeed this feels like a magical place to be, appropriately named too. ;)
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Just got back from Oregon, very special place to me. Haven't been to crater lake in a long time but is a nice day/camp trip from Bend, only a 2-3 hour drive I think

Oregon has all the types of terrain there are except frozen tundra, and a lot of it is cheap...if you don't count gas money...it takes a minute to get anywhere

I have been going for almost 2 decades now, and this year my friend I took on road trip in my year living there timed a trip out so he could revisit.

His first time we started going south from Bend to see the crater (but didn't go in it, steep hike and his pregnant wife was with us, camped relatively nearby went over to the Oregon vortex in golf hills which has a neat magnetic anomoloy, down to Damnation Creek hike through redwoods just south into Cali, up to Newport to see the sea lions and pacific city to see the tide pools, over to Portland to see friends and music...and back through the Santiam pass to bend which is one of my favorite roads to my favorite town

Also neat to see out there but further out of the way is the ochoco mountains (Ansel Adams photos of the painted hills) out east through the badlands in the John Day area (I have family out there), and further east is Steens mountains we loved to go for non-crowded vacas

So much to see out there, if you have time for some beautiful drives. Closer to (and in) Washington is so many hikes on the gorge, my favorite easy one is Elowah Falls (at John Yeon scenic point) which is a little past tourist trap (but worth a stop if there's a spot in the lot) Multinamoah Falls (highest 365 day waterfall in US I think)

Also just over the Colombia River gorge in Trout Lake Washington is James Gilliland ECETI ranch, which is definitely worth price of admission if you're in that neck of the woods
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Re: Cheap Places EE Folks Need to Visit (USA)

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I would probably love all of those places.
Hoping my son gets to see them if I don't.

Glad you were there :)

And thank you for the excellent references, some of those I did not know even by name!!
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