Eagle Point, Oregon

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| Oregon Coast Guide | Crater Lake | Rogue River | National Cemetery Eagle Point is a small city just off Highway 62 north of Medford Oregon. Eagle Point offers the charm of a small rural community within a short drive to Medford and Ashland Oregon with the amenities of Southern Oregon's largest cities such as the Shakespeare Festival of Ashland, Craterian Theater for the Performing Arts, Rogue Community College, Southern Oregon University, Costco, Lowes, shopping, movies, and much more. Very near Eagle point you'll find the Eagle Point National Cemetery, the resting place for thousands of US Veterans where Military Funeral honors can be provided by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Marine Corps, and the National Guard. Eagle Point is also home to one of Oregon's finest Golf Courses, the Eagle Point Golf Course designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Eagle Point also boasts close proximity to some of Oregon's most amazing national wonders. The Oregon Coast is only about two hours away, and the beautiful Rogue River just down Highway 62 where it crosses the road at Shady Cove. Elk Creek Lake is a popular boating area also within a short drive of Eagle Point. Eagle Point is about an hour from Crater Lake, including Crater Lake National Park, formed when a stratovolcano about 12,000 feet high erupted furiously about 7800 years ago, sending ashes all over the earth and changing the global climate for many years. The Mazama event was probably the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history although some details of the Crater Lake creation remain unknown. After the destruction of the top of Mazama and the hollowing out of the remaining cone as lava flowed out from the area now knows as "The Watchman". Over the centuries following the eruption the volcanic caldera largely filled with water from rainfall (there are no natural water feeds to the lake). The lake level now remains fairly stable as rainfall, evaporation, and a small amount of spring activity are largely in balance at a lake depth of almost 2000 feet. Crater Lake remains one of the deepest bodies of water on earth as well as one of the purest.