Ty Kliewer, co-owner at Skyline Brewing Company in Klamath Falls, remembers feeling unsure about how his nascent brewery—the city’s third—would be received when it launched in May 2018. When he got the last of his licenses approved before opening, Kliewer had all of two accounts lined up to sell Skyline’s ales around town. Weeks after opening, he poured beer at the city’s Basin Brew & Q event, finagling a spot at the festival even after organizers had stopped accepting new entries. Going into the event,

Stretching from ethereal Crater Lake in the High Cascades to the fringe of the Oregon Desert, Klamath County is known for its outstanding natural scenery and outdoor recreation. But woven into its beautiful quilt of peaks, pine forests, lakes, and juniper woodlands is some truly engrossing human history from multiple Native American cultures and a famous Oregon Trail detour to one of the country’s most significant World War II landmarks. Here are six must-experience components of Klamath County’s cultural heritage. 1. Native American Culture Klamath

Truly, there’s no bad time to go birding around Klamath County. Resident and migrating birds rest, nest, feed, and forage around the county’s wide range of ecosystems all year long; in all, roughly 1 million birds either live or pass through Klamath County on annual migrations, making the region a bucket-list destination for birders from around the world. Yet there’s something about spring that makes it a magical time to go birding. As temperatures warm and snow begins to melt in March, April, and May,