There are moments on the Eagle Creek Trail when you completely forget that it was the birthplace of one of Oregon’s largest and most high-profile wildfires of the past decade. In autumn the canyon is ...

Eastern Oregon offers a quieter side of the state, full of wide-open spaces and natural beauty waiting to be explored. If you ...

Whether it’s the Ice Age floods that carved it or the wildfire in 2017 that scarred it, the Columbia River Gorge is a testament to nature’s destructive fury. But from ruin comes rebirth. Eight years ...

Five years after the devastating Eagle Creek Fire tore through a large swath of the Columbia River Gorge, two hiking routes damaged in that burn have finally reopened. On Oct. 20, the U.S. Forest ...

The drizzle is returning, the air is cooler and that big blanket of gray is slowly coming back to cover up western Oregon for the foreseeable future. That might be enough to tempt you back inside for ...

Juliette Rizzo approaches the staircase adjacent to I-84 near Eagle Creek Trailhead. (Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) There are few tools left for advocates to create urgency around the need to ...

As firefighters are working on putting out a pair of wildfires in the Columbia River Gorge, they’re contending with another seasonal scourge in the woods: hikers, backpackers and trail runners who are ...