Out in the Oregon high desert, wind from the snow-capped Three Sisters Range blows down over the quiet, artsy mountain town of Sisters and the snaking bends of the Crooked River to kiss the golden ...

Hikers can once again access popular hiking trails and rock climbing areas at Smith Rock State Park, with work complete on a new footbridge in the popular central Oregon outdoors destination. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sunday’s mountain lion sighting at Cannon Beach is the first-known case of a cougar climbing Haystack Rock, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the ...

The Umpqua tribespeople once roamed the wilds of America's Pacific Northwest, particularly around their namesake river valley in southwestern Oregon. For thousands of years, they lived off the land, ...

There are almost 7,000 state parks in the United States, and one in Oregon is among the 10 best, according to a new ranking. Florida Rentals, a vacation rental marketplace, analyzed Google reviews to ...

In the early 1980s, when Alan Watts was busy revolutionizing rock climbing, he was lonely at Smith Rock State Park. “There were no people at Smith Rock,” Watts recalled of his days spent establishing ...

Police in Oregon arrested a man Thursday who authorities said was planning to carry out a “violent attack” during a rock-climbing event. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said they took Samson ...