Klamath Falls is located on the Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon, just north of the California-Oregon border.
The town of Klamath Falls was founded in 1867, but the area had been inhabited by the Klamath and Modoc peoples for at least 4,000 years before the first European settler.
Settlers began arriving in the Klamath Basin in the 1840s, when a new and safer southern route, called the Applegate Trail, was added to the Oregon Trail. The region further expanded with the discovery of gold in California and the arrival of the railroad in 1909.
Known for its forests and rangeland, logging became the town’s major industry and flourished until the 1980s, when the northern spotted owl and other endangered species changed western forest policy.
This is high desert country, with cold, snowy winters, hot summer days and cool summer nights. Klamath Falls is also known as "Oregon's City of Sunshine" with 300 days of sun per year.
The Klamath Basin is part of the Pacific Flyway - a major north-south route for migratory birds extending from Alaska to Patagonia. Its open water and marsh habitats host migrating waterfowl, sometimes numbering over a million birds. The area also hosts the largest wintering concentration of bald eagles in the lower 48 states.
The Baldwin Hotel and the Klamath County Museum are popular tourist locations in Klamath Falls.
The Upper Klamath Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Oregon - nearly 30 miles long and eight miles wide, with depths of up to 60 feet.
The Running Y Resort is about 7 miles north of Klamath Falls at the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range and covers 3,600 miles of pristine acres. The resort has an award winning Arnold Palmer designed golf course, and offers both home sites and vacation condos.