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climb out of lower Moore Park and provide views of Lake Ewauna and
Klamath Lake. More challenging are the Hayride, Klamath Ridgeview,
Archery trails. Some trails are machine groomed by volunteers using a
simple grooming machine.
Just outside Klamath Falls off Highway 140, the Running Y Ranch
Resort offers cross country skiing and snowshoeing on portions of its
golf course—when it’s snow-covered —along with roads that flank
farm fields and the Skillet Handle, a combination of backroads and
trails popular with hikers during snow-free months. It’s not uncom-
mon to be treated to a chorus of snow geese during the winter.
Starting in Klamath Falls and extending 100 miles east and northeast is
the OC&E Woods Line State Park, a hundred-mile trail that extends to
Bly with a fork going north to the Sycan Marsh. For decades it trans-
ported trees to a Klamath Falls lumber mill. Especially popular with
skiers are sections near Switchback Hill, where trains used the double
switchbacks to more gradually climb and descend the hill.
Just 15 miles from Klamath Falls, or an hour-plus drive from the Rogue
Valley, is Spence Mountain. Its ever-expanding trail system features 42
miles of marked trails. More than 50 miles are planned. The easiest
skiing is from the Shoalwater Bay Trailhead, two miles off Highway
140 from the Eagle Ridge Road turnoff between mileposts 50 and 51,
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