In beautiful Rockaway Beach, this 1.2-mile, out-and-back boardwalk trail is one of the most scenic and accessible hikes in ...

Eli Boschetto was early in the development of a new edition of “100 Classic Hikes: Oregon,” when he suffered a heart attack. The incident set him back a year as he took time away from hiking and ...

Earlier this summer, EarthFix reporter Jes Burns took us on a walk in the Southern Oregon woods with Oregon Wild. The conservation group had been chosen by Google to use a backpack-mounted Trekker ...

As the seasons shift and the weather continues to warm, you may be starting to plan out the hikes you hope to go on this spring and summer. To make it easy for you, the local conservation group Oregon ...

Winter is the time to plan next summer's hiking trips. For the past 40 years, after Don and Roberta Lowe released "100 Oregon Hiking Trails" in 1969, guidebook authors have been making it easy to pick ...

Bright sun dappled the tall forest canopy, the dirt trail crossing through brushy meadows and over massive fallen logs as it ran above an ancient marble cave. Birds chirped and a warm breeze blew, but ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Pacific Northwest is easing into spring, which means that wildflower season is almost here. With forests and hiking trails in every direction, Portland is spoiled with ...

It might be the wildest place in Oregon — or even the Pacific Northwest. The 180,000-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness, in southwest Oregon outside Grants Pass, is a land of deep river canyons, rare ...

The Trail of Ten Falls, located in Silver Falls State Park, is a moderate, 7.2-mile loop with an elevation change of around 800 feet. The trail passes several waterfalls, including South Falls and ...

Wendy Gorton’s family-friendly hiking guides are informative and fun for everyone– not just kids. All listed hikes are low-level difficulty— under four miles and an elevation gain of less than 900 ...

This won’t come across as any surprise, but Oregon is home to some of the world’s most spectacular forests and trees. From yew to sitka, ponderosa to redwood, from redcedar to myrtle, oak, hemlock and ...

Winter in Portland usually means cozying up with a bottle of whiskey and resigning to several months of sloth and drunkenness. And if this coming season is anything like the Snowpocalypse that hit us ...