Lost Lake: Scientists Scramble for Answers Over Hole Thats Swallowing All the Water

There’s a lake in Oregon that is draining into a six-foot hole. Where that water goes though, nobody really knows. Lost Lake in Mount Hood National Forest is draining into what Jude McHugh, a spokeswoman Willamette National Forest, told the the Bend Bulletin is a lava tube. “It fills up in the winter, when input exceeds the rate of draining, and then it goes dry and it’s a meadow,” McHugh told the newspaper. The water draining into the hole could flow into some subterranean ou