Basin Adventures: Go Play in the Snow

Basin Adventures: Go Play in the Snow

With the snow falling, many chose to ignore the snowflakes and dream of sitting on a beach with the warm sun. While others cannot wait to adventure in the frozen white flurries. With the help of the Klamath Falls KOA Journey we look at four family friendly places to go sledding in all the newly fallen snow.

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Basin Adventure: Crystal Ice Cave Tours

Basin Adventure: Crystal Ice Cave Tours

Crystal Ice Cave contains some of the most spectacular ice formations among Lava Beds' many caves. Because of the sensitive nature of this cave's formations and its cold environment, Crystal Ice Cave is open to park visitors only on small ranger-guided tours during the winter months.

Tours of no more than six visitors (ages 12 years and older) are offered every Saturday at 1:00 pm from January through March and last 3+ hours.

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Basin Adventures: Ross Ragland Theater

Basin Adventures: Ross Ragland Theater

The Ross Ragland Theater, a renovated 1940’s movie theater, is a year-round, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary arts center serving South Central Oregon and Northern California. The theater, with near-perfect sight lines and acoustics, provides the perfect venue for a wide array of touring performing artists as well as local productions. Since its opening in 1989, the theater has hosted Grammy Award winners, world-renown classical, jazz and blues musicians, repertory theater tours, opera, drama, comedy, musicals, tribute bands, indie-rock, southern-rock, Christian-rock and alternative-rock bands, acapella groups, acrobats, dancers, children and family shows, and more!

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Basin Adventures: Ice Skating Traditions

Basin Adventures: Ice Skating Traditions

The tradition of ice skating out-of-doors in the Klamath Basin began in the early 1900s when the city created a community ice rink near Moore Park along the south shore of Upper Klamath Lake. This natural sheet of ice was a popular winter recreation site. However, in the 1970s, due to changing climate and city budget constraints, the rink was forced to close. In the 1990's, Bill Collier, a local retiree and former hockey player, began to personally renovate the historic site. He spent cold winter nights and early mornings spraying the dirt patch with water from a fire hose to create the sheet of ice.

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Basin Adventures: Ranger-Guided Showshoe Walks

Basin Adventures: Ranger-Guided Showshoe Walks

Crater Lake National Park is pleased to announce that our popular ranger-guided snowshoe walks are about to begin for the 2017-18 winter season. The walks will start on Friday, November 24 and will be offered every Saturday and Sunday (and on holidays) through April 29, 2018. Walks will also be offered daily from December 16 through January 1 (except on December 25).

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