---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 121"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "121"
heading: "Establishment; boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/121"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Crater Lake National Park"
---

# §121. Establishment; boundaries


In order to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) for the benefit, education, and inspiration of the people of the United States certain unique and ancient volcanic features, including Crater Lake, together with significant forest and [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) resources, there is hereby established the Crater Lake National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon. The boundary of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall encompass the lands, waters, and interests therein within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled, “Crater Lake National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Oregon”, numbered 106–80–001–A, and dated March 1981, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior. Lands, waters, and interests therein within the boundary of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) which were within the boundary of any national forest are excluded from such national forest and the boundary of such national forest is revised accordingly.


## Source credit

(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 1, 32 Stat. 202; Pub. L. 96–553, § 1(a), Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3255; Pub. L. 97–250, § 1(a), Sept. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 709.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982—Pub. L. 97–250 substituted “numbered 106–80–001–A, and dated March 1981” for “numbered 106–80,001, and dated February 1980”.

1980—Pub. L. 96–553 substituted provisions relating to establishment and map depicting boundaries of Crater Lake National Park for provisions setting out latitude and longitude of Crater Lake National Park and dedication of such Park.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Disposition of Excluded Lands, Water, and Interests

Pub. L. 97–250, § 1(b), Sept. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 709, provided that: “Lands, water, and interests therein excluded from the boundary of Crater Lake National Park by subsection (a) [amending this section] are hereby made a part of the Rogue River National Forest, and the boundary of such national forest is revised accordingly.”