Mount Scott is the highest point within Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Its peak has an altitude of 2723m and overlooks Crater Lake. The Mount Scott trail is located on the West side of Crater Lake. The trail itself is about 5 miles roundtrip with about 1000ft in elevation gain. Thus the trail itself is not difficult and quite popular among the visitors to Crater Lake National Park.
We go to Mount Scott trail head by around 1PM in the afternoon. There was about 10 cars parked there. The trail started quite flight through the prairie and the climb started short after. When we were there, the sun was very glaring and hot. However, whenever we go under the shade, the breeze felt really good, just like an AC.
As we make our climb, we also encountered many people coming back down. We were counting the group of people we see and figured that we were probably the last group of hikers on this trail.
After about an hour, we reached to the top of the ridge and we could see the hut at the far end of the ridge. The ridge of Mount Scott has a panoramic view on both sides. We could see Klamath Lake to the Southeast. The view was magnificent.
When we got to the hut, we found the area for sitting down was quite limited. There were many large rocks near the edge of the cliff. There were also bad odor coming from the side of the hut and we figured that someone probably peed here.
Nevertheless, the view over Crater Lake was just amazing. We enjoyed our time up there with cold breeze under a hot sunny day.
Overall, this is an amazing trail for people to do. This trail may be difficult for some people who do not hike on regular basis, but we still strongly recommend this trail. In addition, this trail was not busy at all on the Friday afternoon, but the parking lot was packed full when we drove by on Saturday.
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