Redwood National and State Parks - Crescent City, California, Klamath, California, Klamath River, Sequoia Sempervirens, Redwood Creek (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Crescent City, California, Klamath, California, Klamath River, Sequoia sempervirens, Redwood Creek, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Save-the-Redwoods League, Northern California coastal forests, Smith River, Richardson Grove State Park, Stone Lagoon, Freshwater Lagoon, Del Norte Titan, Lost Monarch, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Grove of Titans, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Excerpt: Klamath River - a.new, #quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:5: f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Klamath River The Klamath approaching its mouth on the Pacific, near the town KlamathUpper Klamath Lake, filling a broad valley at the foot of the eastern slope of the southern High Cascades, is considered the birthplace of the Klamath River. Its headstreams, however, begin over 100 miles (160 km) away-as far as Crater Lake and the Oregon-Nevada border. The first 1-mile (1.6 km) stretch of the Klamath River is known as the Link River. Not long after, however, the river is impounded in a 18-mile (29 km)-long reservoir near Klamath Falls, Lake Ewauna, where it receives the Lost River and passes the nearly-dry bed of Lower Klamath Lake. Even after it flows out of this reservoir, it drops through a series of three more artificial lakes before it crosses the Oregon-California state border and turns south near the town of Hornbrook towards the direction of Mount Shasta. However, the river soon swings west to receive the Shasta River and Scott River, cutting deep into the head of its canyon through the Klamath Mountains. The route through the High and Western Cascades and the Klamath Mountains constitutes the majority of the river's course and takes it from the arid high desert climate of its upper watershe...