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Show HcijfffBEA 1 v ' 0nce a flery volcan. Crater lake in Ore-""Baulks Ore-""Baulks s ,,ne of the beauty spots In national parks of the West. a liicn K'v'" the Park 'tS name' ,s the dcePpst on the North ' K continent its color is a mysterious blue. Sheer sides rise tt SaM! feet o the rim from the lake surface. Llao rock, on the 'tbela'te' shown thl Pcture. with Mount Thlclson In the 5ic Coast Parks Show Its of Volcanic Action WNU Features. Kies have been a dominant factor in shaping the landscape, especially in many parts of the West, it major volcanic exhibits of California, Oregon lington have been incorporated into the national B years ago that Theodore Roosevelt, using the au-jnted au-jnted by congress the preceding year, established ' sit and nearby Cinder Cone as national monuments. seen in all his wanderings throughout through-out the mountains of the West. The most extensive and colorful displays dis-plays are found in the mountain "parks" which lie between the long rivers of ice and above the dense forests which clothe the lower elevations eleva-tions of the park. The forests themselves, them-selves, virgin stands of gigantic Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock, are a distinguished distin-guished feature, particularly attractive at-tractive to eastern and midwest-ern midwest-ern visitors. . . . ALL THREE of these parks are almost as popular during the winter win-ter as in summer. All of them have very heavy snowfall and all have open slopes that offer the skier every variety of skiing experience, which extends into late spring and even early summer. Roads are kept open in each park to permit winter sports enthusiasts to reach them, although the expense of plowing out the roads after every snowstorm is. rather high. IN LASSEN Volcanic National park there are public accommodations accommoda-tions near Manzanita lake, close to the northwest entrance of the park. At Crater lake, similar accommodations accommoda-tions are situated within a short distance of the rim. At Mount Rainier Rain-ier they are found at Longrnire, about 2,750 feet above sea level; at Paradise valley, 5,557 feet elevation, and at Ohanapecosh hot springs in the southeast corner of the park. Public campgrounds, for which no fee is charged, are to be found at a number of points in each of these parks. As in most of the other national parks, National Park service provides pro-vides staffs of ranger-naturalists whose job it is to help the visitor gain a better understanding of the plant and animal life of the parks and of the geological phenomena found in them. -B-s later these two attract !IiWj.jtUre were incorporated r'jB Volcanic National park, '"iBj 103.269 acres. 'S.B. single distinction of the s fSfce (act that it contains the only recently 'B 1 1 active volca- 'Bl ParkS no In the pg United States, i ;Htiinn Starting May '"Series 30' mi- :i se" ;W nes of erup- mH tlons contin- ;"Btl February, 1921. Most THEar in the seven-year-long Be:e'.hel9.- eruptions, which Boipanied by extensive hot lava These created vasiaied area," which still YoB :ne of the park's points j'Bcral interest to tourists. "B:e;t cone of Lassen peak H- feet above sea level. As "'Bievastatod area," the Cin-" He '.rtich was last active ,AV years ago, and its imme-jlfcrindings imme-jlfcrindings are almost whol- Hid of vegetation. t jH a long time iave exerted their power Ke:? of ways. This is sug-'eBl? sug-'eBl? Bumpas Hell, a colorful H area; Boiling Springs 1 Jul Cinder Cone; Crater Scd the privately owned sul-':.-;5. which lies within the 8MTER LAKE National Parkl s nBern Oregon, on the crest of ktyade range, is presented the o a lake of deepest blue Bra!er of Mount Mazama, an is U volcano, Many geologists isBwluded that the basin occu- theBtie lake, which has neither iiS cutlet, resulted from col- cojBe volcanic cone of the an- xtjBkeis supplied with water by snowfall as well as by leBhich is blown into it from Collapse of the mountain's i dBM not mean the end of its bM activity; Wizard island, a NuBtncal cinder cone, was -later and rises 780 feet above o! the lake. Covering an square miles, Crater lake jHsacrss; it has a shore line P'les anrl the multi-colored BT .m i ise 500 to Bl" The park con- V EST OF ALL volcanic peaks Wstern Lnited States is Bonier, , ; m feet in eleva-B eleva-B 'hi' central and domi-o'ure domi-o'ure of Mount Rainier Na-MPi!)i- Although it has long IB m still issues IV' s n its immit, and sev-springs sev-springs are found nearby at M vied Ohanapecosh " tne lofty central cone slheS est single-peak ' system in the United sftwith 26 active rivers of Un 0f the. ., tne Emmons j'arts fr, the summit of 111 'now fields, is 5M miles Mi, the longest glacier Ln'ted states. Most of Jnd far below the tim- isMuir, who perhaps did as any one person to further ( ,f the national park idea, R 'he wildfiower fields of nj,nier the finest he had ever f'-; '1 RIVER OF ICE . Nisqually glacier flows down the south side of Mount Rainier, focal point in Mount Rainier National park in Washington. |