Restroom · Crater Lake National Park
A practical first stop for park info and a restroom break.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Crater Lake Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Crater Lake National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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A Woodpecker in the Burn“Black-backed woodpeckers find food in trees that a fire has killed. Beetle larvae feed inside the wood, and the birds chip and dig through it to reach them.”
Plays on the road 0.7 mi from Old West Kiosk in the Parkwolf Crater Lake Tour Guide.
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Old West Kiosk is a roadside service stop on Highway 62 at Crater Lake's western approach. It is a practical place to break the drive before continuing toward the lake.
There is a surface parking area, an outdoor park-information board and a vault restroom. The information is posted outdoors, rather than offered as a full visitor-center visit.
Stop if you need the restroom or want to read the posted information. This is a service stop, not an attraction to set aside sightseeing time for.
Wildlife
16 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
178 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
26 sightingsCommon RavenMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
33 sightingsTurkey VultureMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
47 sightingsRed-tailed HawkMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
71 sightingsCascades FrogMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Crater Lake. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
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The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
