September 2025

West Coast

A September 2025 run up the Pacific coast — the caldera holding the deepest lake in the country, then a peninsula with rainforest, glaciers and wild shore inside one park.

Where I visited

Oregon

• 1Crater Lake — three years of waiting for the bluest water I've ever seen

Washington

• 2Olympic National Park — glaciers, wild coast, and a rainforest that surprised me