There is only one place where it is safe and legal to get down to the lake edge. It is the Cleetwood Cove Trail, which usually opens mid to late June. Visitors are welcome to swim in the lake from the shoreline at the end of this trail. The temperature of the surface of the lake only gets into the 50's in Summer so it's pretty cold.
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Crater Lake (deepest lake in the US) is in southwest Oregon near California.
You can play with water
Legislation establishing Crater Lake as a national park was signed on 1902 May 22.
Crater Lake is 5 by 6 miles across(8 by 9.6 km) with an average depth of 1,148 feet(350 m).
It was made by a volcano. The volcano erupted and it got filled with water