Tag: Happy Camp
Happy Camp (Karuk: athithúf-vuunupma) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Siskiyou County, California in the United States. The population was 1,190 at the 2010 census.
The town of Happy Camp “The Heart of the Klamath” is located on State Route 96, about 70 miles (110 km) west of Interstate 5 and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Willow Creek. The town of O’Brien, Oregon is accessible from Happy Camp (which is nearly 40 miles (64 km) away). The shortest route to Oregon, over the Grey Back pass, is a seasonal summer road and is not cleared or maintained in snowy conditions. Check with the Forest Service, located in town on SR 96, for road closure information.
Take the virtual tour of the State of Jefferson Scenic Byway along the Klamath River and up Grayback Road.
Prior to 1851 – The area now occupied by Happy Camp is the ancestral homeland of the Karuk tribe. Karuk means “upriver people”. Their cousins, the Yurok, are the “downriver people”. There was a Karuk village on the banks of…
