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History Desk Latest Posts

Crater Lake Rainbows – Dan Mackay

5:53 pm 17 Mar 2025

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8:45 am 21 Jan 2025

Early Stories from Ranger Lloyd Smith

8:41 am 10 Jul 2021

Rangering in the ’80s at Crater Lake National Park

9:13 am 18 Apr 2021

The Eidson Family Goes to Crater Lake – Twice

11:50 am 14 Oct 2020

Our Website Guy Goes Backpacking

12:26 pm 03 Oct 2020

More Bears from Lloyd Smith

7:23 am 28 Jun 2020
Lloyd Smith's Bears

Lloyd’s Bears

11:07 am 26 Jun 2020

Bug in the Tree

9:50 am 09 Jun 2020

Horse Rangers at Crater Lake

5:43 pm 06 May 2020

1967 – Ranger Boat Sinks

12:38 pm 21 Apr 2020

CLI Sponsors Ski Patrol

11:26 am 17 Apr 2020

1988 Anderson Family Faces Wizard Wind

10:26 am 17 Apr 2020

1934 Hollywood Beauty Demonstrators Crash at Crater Lake

9:01 am 10 Apr 2020

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We are an independent, non-profit organization not officially affiliated with Crater lake National Park or the National Park Service. Crater Lake Institute is a 501 (C) 3 non-profit organization.

 

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