Museum offers Tours of Baldwin, Walker Rim and Tree ID Walk
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Auto tour to explore Walker Rim
An historic cabin at the summit of Walker Rim in northern Klamath County. (Submitted Photo)
An auto tour to the summit of Walker Rim in northern Klamath County will be led by the Klamath County Museum Saturday, June 30.
Participants are invited to meet at 10 a.m. at the junction of Highway 97 and Forest Service Road 94, about 4 miles north of Chemult.
High-clearance vehicles are required to travel the last few miles to the summit. The summit road is not passable by most passenger cars.
“There’s a beautiful stone masonry cabin at the summit of this important mountain that rises more than 2,000 feet above the surrounding terrain,” said Todd Kepple, museum manager for Klamath County. “The cabin is reportedly the oldest structure on the Deschutes National Forest.”
The tour will include discussion of a mysterious geologic feature in northern Klamath County that includes Walker Rim.
An afternoon portion of the tour will include a visit to Corral Spring, an important water source for early travelers in the region.
Tree identification subject of walk
Tree identification in the Upper Klamath Basin will be subject of an interpretive walk offered June 28 on the Link River Trail. (Submitted Photo)
An interpretive walk designed to help people identify trees native to the Klamath Basin will be offered at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, June 28, on the Link River Trail.
The walk, titled “Trees to Know in Klamath,” is cosponsored by the Klamath County Museum and the Klamath-Lake Forest Health Partnership.
“We want to not only help people know the difference between a pine and a fir and a spruce, but to be able to tell one kind of pine from another,” said museum manager Todd Kepple. “We’ll discuss how to identify conifers by their leaves, bark, cones and habitat.”
The free walk will cover about one mile on level ground, and may last up to one and a half hours. The Link River Trail is barrier-free.
The walk will begin at the north trailhead, near the Fremont Bridge on Lakeshore Drive.
Architecture tour offered at Baldwin Hotel Museum
Architecture of the Baldwin Hotel Museum will be highlighted in a special tour being offered Saturday, June 30. (Submitted Photo)
A special tour exploring the design and construction of the Baldwin Hotel Museum building, 31 Main St., will be offered Saturday, June 30.
Museum guides will offer the tour at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5 per person, with a $1 discount for students and seniors.
“The Baldwin building was one of the most impressive structures in Klamath Falls at the time it opened in 1906,” said Doty DeGarmo, a docent at the Baldwin Hotel Museum. “Despite the challenges George Baldwin faced at the time, the building has held up remarkably well for 112 years.”
The stone masonry walls of the Baldwin building are 36 inches thick at the ground level, tapering down to 12 inches on the fourth floor.
The tour will also examine seismic retrofitting that was performed following the 1993 earthquake.
A number of other features of the building remain a mystery, including the purpose of a cupola that sits in the middle of the roof.
The Baldwin Hotel Museum is open for regular tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday during the summer.
For more information on these events, all the Klamath County Museum at (541) 882-1000. Press release provided from the Klamath County Museum.