It can be a day-hike or adventure — an easy backpacking trip with kids or bushwhack to one of Oregon’s most impressive waterfalls. You can go fishing, or swimming, or exploring, or just put your feet ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It was the end of a long, hot day of backpacking. My hiking companions Erik Petersen and Parker ...

Westslope cutthroat trout — like this colored-up, 15-inch male — are a common find in Idaho’s high-elevation fisheries. Jordan Rodriguez Huffing and puffing, my friend Clayton and I crested the saddle ...

When John Hart wrote about the High Siskiyou Mountains in his 1975 book, “Hiking Bigfoot Country,” he was deeply concerned. Even while the author gloried in the mountains’ “spectacle and charm, the ...

Fall nights in the Pecos Wilderness are long and cool, and even if the closest human is miles away, the sounds echoing through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains let you know you are not alone. Over four ...

I’d like to say that my friend Gabe and I took a short backpacking trip in late June to celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th birthday, which is coming up in September, but that would be a lie. We just ...

CARSON, Wash. (AP) Will Rossi of Portland was looking to take advantage of the final bits of summer. So he and his friends decided on Thomas Lake trail No. 111 in Indian Heaven Wilderness. "This is my ...