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Crater Lake science and learning center opens - August 28, 2006

A new facility at Crater Lake National Park opened Friday to provide additional research and educational opportunities to promote stewardship, appreciation and cultural heritage of the park.

Grand Opening of Science and Learning Center - August 24, 2006

The final renovations to two park historic structures – the original superintendent’s residence and the chief naturalist’s residence – have been completed.

Bldg improvements, relocation of parking new restaurant - July 28, 2006

Crater Lake hasn't changed much in the past thousand years, but if you haven't visited Oregon's only national park for a year or two, you can't help but notice that things look different there.

Annie Creek Restaurant set to open at Crater Lake - May 25, 2006

Annie Creek Restaurant, in Mazama Village, is part of a concession improvement program at Crater Lake National Park.

Crater restaurant-gift shop nears completion - January 05, 2006

Within a few months, after the snow melts and the interior work is completed, Crater Lake National Park and Xanterra Parks & Resorts officials believe the still-under-construction building will help transform the park's Mazama Village.

Construction Projects Update - June 30, 2005
Construction has begun on the first phase of a project to update visitor services at Rim Village in Crater Lake National Park. A portion of the cafeteria/gift store building is being rehabilitated as a year-round facility for gift sales and food service.

Construction projects beginning at Crater Lake - May 24, 2005

A decades-long effort to return Crater Lake National Park's Rim Village to pedestrians will become a reality next week when long-awaited work begins on tearing out the existing parking lot.

Multiple construction projects Begin! - May 23, 2005
On June 1, we will begin the first phase of a project to update visitor services at Rim Village in Crater Lake National Park. A portion of the cafeteria/gift store building will be rehabilitated as a year-round facility for gift sales and food service.

Project to Rehabilitate Rim Village Begins! - April 01, 2005

Crater Lake National Park is launching an exciting new project to improve visitor services and safety at Rim Village. The project includes relocating the existing parking lot at Rim Village to the rear of the cafeteria building and restoring the current parking lot area to a walking plaza.

Science, learning center part of park renovation - September 14, 2004

Structures built in the 1930s - two vacant residences that for many summers housed Crater Lake's superintendent and chief naturalist - are being renovated as an office-research center and dormitory for the future Crater Lake Science and Learning Center.

Sinnott Memorial Overlook: new exhibit provides answers - September 02, 2003

Thanks to a dazzling new exhibit a the Sinnott Memorial Overlook, the open parapet built in 1930 high on the caldera wall above Crater Lake, visitors to Crater Lake National Park are better understanding the park's geological history.

Roadwork proposed near entrance of Crater Lake - August 20, 2003

Rehabilitation work will be done on 7.7 miles of the West Entrance Road, also known as the Highway 62, from Crater Lake National Park's west boundary to the Mazama intersection in the park.

Crater Lake looking at trail relocation, rehabilitation - June 05, 2002

Some backcountry trails at Crater Lake National Park that were originally built as fire access roads may be either rehabilitated or relocated.

New work gives old look to Crater Lake buildings - July 23, 2001

The park's popular Rim Village area is undergoing a series of transformations this summer in preparation for next year's 100th anniversary celebration of Crater Lake as a national park.

Crater Lake project restores purpose to Rim Village sites - July 1, 2001

If you had taken a boat out on the crystal clear waters of Crater Lake 70 years ago, chances are you wouldn't have been able to locate the new Sinnott Memorial building high above on the south rim.

Crater Lake lookout is under renovation - August 18, 1999

The Watchman fire lookout tower and trailside museum, built in 1931-32, is being rehabilitated in the Crater Lake National Park as part of an effort to preserve the past as well as continue the tower's main task as a fire observation outpost.

Work will close Crater Lake trail - April 15, 1998

Visitors to the collapsed volcano that forms the nation's deepest and clearest lake won't be able to visit the water this summer because installation of a new fuel line will block the only trail.

The grand old lodge reopens at Crater Lake - May, 1995

When historic Crater Lake Lodge reopens in May after a seven-year closure, visitors will have a number of new perspectives from which to savor views of the nation's deepest lake (1,932 feet).

Crater Lake Lodge Opens Wednesday - June 5, 1938

Of interest to the many motorists who are planning their Summer vacations in the Northwest, the opening of Crater Lake Lodge, situated in the colorful Crater Lake National Park in Southern Oregon, is scheduled June 8, according to advice received by P. K Allan, domestic sales manager of Tidewater Associated Oil Company, Associated Division.