Collier State Park (2/10)

Located between Klamath Falls and Chiloquin, Collier State Park is beautiful, though it is on the east side of the mountains. The river that is shown is called Spring Creek. I’ve caught well over 100 rainbow trout and brook trout out of this river. As the name implies, the river is spring fed and it is very cold, even in the hottest part of summer. 

In fact, people need to be careful of not falling in, during the summer. Air temperatures in the summer can reach above 110 F. The water, on the other hand, stays below 40 F. Falling in means that you can be subjected to a 70-degree shock to the system.

The water is crystal clear, though, and it is clean. I used to love drinking right out of the river. Incidentally, there is a campground about 1.4 miles from where this picture was taken and I’ve camped there a number of times.

Collier Park isn’t large, but it features a logging museum with incredible old logging equipment and some log cabins furnished with what the loggers of old had in their cabins. As can be seen in this picture, this is a place of Ponderosa pine, also called red pine because of the color of the bark.