Polk County's Valley of the Giants is among the old growth forests listed as potential sites for a federal logging expansion.

Planning a trip to Portland? Discover highly-recommended hikes within city limits featuring forest trails, volcanic views, and easy access by public transit.

It’s time to plan a trip to Silver Falls State Park.

Smith Rock has earned international fame in climbing circles, which is impressive for a state park in Central Oregon. This is where American sport climbing essentially grew up, and climbers from ...

A local trail group has finished a two-year project building over 11 new miles of trails up and around Cline Buttes west of Redmond. The Central Oregon Trail Alliance (COTA) […] ...

The Central Oregon Trail Alliance just added 11.41 miles of new cross-country trails to the Cline Buttes trail system located ...

Here’s the thing about secrets: the really good ones are impossible to keep. Smith Rock State Park near Redmond, Oregon is ...

A cross-country road trip is one of the most unique experiences you can have on a motorcycle, and there are lots of different ...

Central Oregon’s oldest still-standing house resides in the park It would be easy to pass by the nondescript, white-walled ...

Nothing remains of the cabins, stables and Pony Express station where the Nebraska City brothers planted roots in 1859 rather than continue to Colorado’s gold fields. But the memory of ...

Whether your preferred landscape is mountains, deserts, forests, plains, or coastal views, there’s a spring road trip in the ...

People walking in Oregon are seeing messages of peace. More than 1,000 wooden poles with “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in different languages are already standing in the state’s parks, greenways and ...