PRAIRIE CITY, Ore. — Oregon is so brimming with incredible wild places for camping and hiking that sometimes it can be hard to determine just where to go when you have a few days to get away. Recently ...

PRAIRIE CITY — We must have looked weary, because the young girl was immediately encouraging as we encountered her group just a few hundred feet from the summit of Strawberry Mountain. “It’s not much ...

The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a place that, for many Oregonians, sits just beyond reach. Many have heard of it, some dream of traveling there, yet surprisingly, few make the five-hour trip ...

The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a place that, for many Oregonians, sits just beyond reach. Many have heard of it, some dream of traveling there, yet surprisingly, few make the five-hour trip ...

GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS • Five minutes into the hike, I knew I shouldn’t have come. Not here. Not now. In a few more weeks, the wooded slopes of the behemoth known as Greenhorn Mountain will be ...

For over a decade now, I’ve avoided visiting and writing about Marion Lake, perhaps the most popular alpine pool in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The reason was simple — everybody and their mom ...

Officials posted signs at trail entrances around Desolation Wilderness just west of South Lake Tahoe after hikers had an unusual encounter with a mountain lion. The group was traveling the Velma Lakes ...

A lightning bolt lit the night. It seared the air at 50,000 degrees and then harpooned a Douglas fir with a few billion watts. As thunder boomed and shook across the mountain rim, the tree ignited. At ...

Editor's Note: This article on the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is the fifth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal ...

The mountain lion attack that injured a 3-year-old boy in a Lake Forest wilderness park on Monday was “extremely rare,” a state fish and wildlife official said on Tuesday. The boy – bitten in the back ...

A mountain lion attacked and injured a 3-year-old boy at a wilderness park in Lake Forest on Monday, prompting evacuation of the popular hiking area, officials said. Authorities shot the animal to ...