Introduction
65 miles E of Ashland, 60 miles S of Crater Lake
Unless you are an avid bird-watcher or are looking for a cheap place to stay close to Crater Lake National Park, you won't find too much to attract you to the Klamath Falls area. However, this region, a wide, windswept expanse of lakes, high desert, and mountain forests just north of the California line, has a history of human presence that stretches back more than 14,000 years. The large lakes in this dry region have long attracted a wide variety of wildlife (especially waterfowl), which once provided a food source for the area's Native American population. The prehistoric residents of the region lived on the shores of the Klamath Basin's lakes and harvested fish, birds, and various marsh plants. Today, two local museums exhibit extensive collections of Native American artifacts that have been found in this area.
Upper Klamath Lake and adjacent Agency Lake have shrunk considerably over the years as shallow, marshy areas have...
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Klamath County Museum
More Native American artifacts, this time exclusively from the Klamath Lakes area, are on display in this museum, while a history of the Modoc...
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Favell Museum of Western Art and Indian Artifacts
Anyone with an interest in Native American artifacts or Western art will be fascinated by a visit to this unusual museum, considered one of the...
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Crater Lake
- Crater Lake is situated in a private game sanctuary on "Ndabibi Estate" - the Maasai word for Clover. The land used to be owned by Gilbert Colville...
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