and gaze at stars glistening in the night sky. Read more: One Of West Virginia's Best-Kept Secrets Is A Train Ride Through A Canyon You Can't Reach By Car Mountain Lakes Wilderness is 45 minutes west ...

Few moments cry out for the use of vacation time more than warm and sunny days in September and October in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain wilderness areas. The trails, lakes and peaks of Oregon’s most ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness highlights five Cascade Mountain lakes where you can hike and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon is home to only one national park located five hours south of Portland: Crater Lake. And though snow can make getting to, and through the area this time of year, one of ...

There are few places in the Pacific Northwest where you can take a moderate hike to an alpine lake between two mountains in a beautiful wilderness area. But Green Lakes is not like other places. Found ...

Broken Top towers over No Name Lake, high in the Three Sisters Wilderness west of Bend. (Mark Morical/The Bulletin) The snow continues to melt in the mountains, and now most all high-elevation trails ...

A map shows both wilderness areas created by the signing of the Wilderness Act in 1964, along with newer areas created since (in light green). Sept. 3 of this year marked the 60th anniversary of the ...

If it’s true that mountain goats have been reintroduced in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness, where are they? I write hiking guidebooks for that area, so my research takes me all over. Goats are not ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness highlights five Cascade Mountain lakes where you can hike and catch good-sized trout. This shorter episode includes how to find the ...