Agate Area (Klamath River)

This entry marks a stretch of the upper Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California, near Hornbrook, close to the Oregon border and downstream of Iron Gate Dam. The Klamath River corridor has a long-standing reputation among California rockhounds for agate, jasper, and petrified wood in its gravel bars — general knowledge among collectors working the Highway 96 corridor further downstream — but we found no source specific to this exact stretch near Hornbrook confirming a particular gravel bar, access point, or land manager. Siskiyou County along the Klamath is a patchwork of Klamath National Forest, BLM, and private ranch land, so land status here has to be checked case by case rather than assumed.

The general area sits along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, near Hornbrook, close to the California-Oregon state line and downstream of Iron Gate Dam. We found no specific named access road or gravel bar confirmed for this exact location.

General-area inference: Klamath River gravel-bar collecting typically means surface picking waterworn material with a small shovel or pick and a bucket, working exposed bars at low water. No source confirms specific conditions at this exact stretch.

Land status is UNVERIFIED. This stretch of the Klamath runs through a mix of Klamath National Forest, BLM, and private ranch land in Siskiyou County — confirm which you're on before collecting, and check current rules with the Klamath National Forest office or the BLM's Redding Field Office for the specific stretch you plan to visit.