Crescent one of the 15 best
Published 12:01 am Monday, July 16, 2012
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Lake Crescent is among 15 lakes nationwide nominated as America’s best lake in a USA Today Internet contest.
To cast a vote for the lake that best symbolizes summer, visit http://tinyurl.com/83kx7bg and post a comment about your favorite, or send a tweet to @USATODAYTravel by July 27.
USA Today will tally the votes and visit the winning lake for a story appearing Aug. 10.
Editors at five regional magazines were asked to pick a trio of favorite lakes.
Peter Fish at Sunset magazine nominated Lake Crescent west of Port Angeles.
“In Olympic National Park, Crescent offers deep (second deepest in the state of Washington) clear (clearest in the country, its fans claim) water surrounded by fir forests,” the USA Today website says.
“You can canoe and kayak, and fish for two species of trout found nowhere else in the world, then grab a chair on the porch of 1916-vintage Lake Crescent Lodge.
An official maximum depth recorded at Crescent Lake, which is in Olympic National Park, is 624 feet although unofficial measurements have been deeper.
A massive landslide isolated the glacier-fed lake from Lake Sutherland approximately 7,000 years ago.
