Klamath County occupies roughly 6,000 square miles in the shadow of the Cascade Range—roughly the size of the Big Island in Hawaii and half the size of Belgium. Across that span, and throughout the broader Klamath Basin, you’ll encounter crystal-clear lakes in the heart of the Cascades, Oregon’s only national park, towering old-growth forests, hundreds of underground caves, verdant farmland, and otherworldly lava flows. It’s a lot to take in—likely more than you can squeeze in on your next vacation to Klamath. So instead of

Nestled along the Oregon and California border, just north of Lava Beds National Monument and due south of majestic Crater Lake National Park, are five of the friendliest little farm towns you absolutely must come see. Merrill, Malin, Dorris, Tulelake, and Bonanza are each distinct communities of a few hundred to just shy of a thousand residents, with their own personalities and charms. They are linked by a collective pride, community spirit, and let’s-all-pull-together-and-do-this-ourselves independence that you can taste in the scratch cooking and feel

Set in a sun-drenched valley just north of Klamath Falls and west of Upper Klamath Lake, in south-central Oregon’s Klamath County, there lies a golf course of almost legendary allure and beauty. Not only is the course at Running Y Resort one of the most naturally scenic and striking in the Pacific Northwest, but it’s also Oregon’s one and only Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course. More on that shortly, but the most important thing to know now is this: If you thought Klamath County was