Summer is a great time to explore mountain towns where you can enjoy cooler temperatures and beautiful natural settings.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said Friday that Congress won't pass a Mt. Hood wilderness bill in its lame-duck session. "It's toast," said Blumenauer, adding that Congress is having enough trouble ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Starting January 2024, Mt. Hood climbers will be required to have permits to climb above a 9,500-foot elevation. Climbing permits, which will be available online, will cost $20 ...

State investigators found that a former Mt. Hood Community College outdoors instructor used her job to obtain free season ski passes. (Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian) A former outdoors instructor has ...

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 ...

PORTLAND -- A new survey says that almost 140,000 people a year venture into the wilderness areas of the Mount Hood National Forest, about twice as many as previous estimates. Survey results are not ...

MT HOOD, Ore. — Officials have issued an avalanche warning for the Mount Hood area as rising temperatures and rainfall threaten to destabilize the snowpack. The warning, issued Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Clackamas County Search and Rescue saved two California women who became lost while hiking on Mt. Hood without a map, compass or flashlights earlier this month. According to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Winter weather is closing in on Mt. Hood as the fall season gets underway in the Pacific Northwest. The biggest winter weather event of the fall season takes aim at Mt. Hood ...

Nothing says ‘happy summer’ like five inches of snow on the summer solstice! At least, that’s what folks in Whitefish, Montana and other parts of the Rockies and Pacific Northwest might want to tell ...