Dawn at Crater Lake Lodge, rim-side coffee on the stone terrace as the caldera reveals itself in alpenglow—2,000 feet of water so blue it reads as myth. A helicopter flight with Cascade Air circles the volcanic cone, the Phantom Ship island appearing like a toy beneath you, before landing at Diamond Lake Resort for an afternoon of canoe paddles across glacier-fed water, the Cascade peaks mirrored in glass-still surface. Evenings unfold at Umpqua Hot Springs, a 15-minute soak in natural sulfur pools nestled in old-growth Douglas fir, the ritual of heat and silence before a dinner of smoked trout and huckleberry tart at the lodge's dining room.
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