Looking down from the west rim where the narrow Skell Channel separates Wizard Island from the crater cliffs
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Wizard Island can be seen from almost any place on the rim, including the Sinnott Memorial Overlook, where an interpretive panel summarizes the history of the island as follows: “Formed several centuries after the eruption and collapse of Mount Mazama, the island is a miniature volacano, called a cinder cone. About 7,500 years old, it grew inside the caldera after Mount Mazama collapsed, and while the caldera was filling with water.”
William L. Sullivan describes how to plan a round trip to Wizard Island (Hike 11 in his book “Trails of Crater Lake”). He writes that William Gladstone Steel thought the cone resembled a sorcerer's hat. Steel first visited Crater Lake in 1885 and then successfully campaigned to protect the lake. The crater on top of the wizard's hat he named the “Witches Cauldron.”
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