The Klamath River (Karuk: Ishkêesh, Klamath: Koke, Yurok: Hehlkeek ʼWe-Roy) is a 257-mile (414 km) long river in southern Oregon and northern California. Beginning near Klamath Falls in the Oregon high desert, it flows west through the Cascade Range and Klamath Mountains before reaching the temperate rainforest of California's North Coast, where it empties into the Pacific Ocean. The Klamath River is the third-largest salmon and steelhead producing river on the west coast of the contiguous United States. The river's watershed – the Klamath Basin – encompasses more than 15,000 square miles (...
Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.