NPS scales back Crater Lake plans. (National Park Service; Crater Lake National Park in Oregon)
National Parks, July, 1993 by McCarty, Laura P.
The National Park Service backed down this spring from plans for a major new tourist development at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
In a step urged by NPCA, Congress refused last fall to provide the park with money to build a massive hotel complex. Instead, it ordered Crater Lake to rethink its development proposal.
In 1988, the Park Service began work on plans to upgrade the park's historic lodge and to move roads and buildings away from the edge of Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the country. But those plans grew to inlcude new development on the lake's rim, and the cost escalated from the original $30 million to more than $90 million.
Most of this increase came from a 60-room, $34-million hotel the Park Service proposed building on...
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