The campground, near Annie Springs Entrance Station , has a store, showers, and laundry. Lost Creek Campground, with sites for tents only, is open from early July to late August. It is accessed by a park road which leads south from Rim Drive, past the campground, to the Pinnacles. P ark Features Crater Lake is a summer place, and also a winter place. The two seasons are very different from one another.
Summer is short.
The lake, the deepest in the nation, glows with a translucent sheen, rimmed by rock with a few evergreen trees clinging to the slope. The soft green forests and flowery meadows are in sharp contrast to the rocky walls of the crater and the bare rock formations which poke above the rim. Wildflowers blanket the park meadows and forest floor for most of the summer. They are some of the 600 species of plants which have colonized the region since the volcano's ash covered the slopes for many miles around. The forest is primarily mountain hemlock and Shasta red fir, with stunted and twisted whitebark pine at the rim.