Watchman Overlook and Watchman Lookout Trail

For our second hike, we parked at the Watchman Overlook on the West Rim of Crater Lake, then continued up the trail to the Lookout on Watchmant (about 1.8 miles round trip with 400 ft of gain). It snowed in the higher areas of the park last night, so we had some beautiful snowy vistas along the trail. We were mostly in the clouds with some peek a boo views until we returned back down to the overlook. Fabulous day! Views from Watchman Overlook when we first arrived:

View up towards Watchman

Icy Lookout up on Watchman

Some views we saw as the clouds lifted up on Watchman

After we returned to the Watchman Overlook, it had cleared up enough that we could see the Lookout on top of Watchman above, and had lovely views of Crater Lake

wildflowers we saw here today