Surrounding the mountain is the Mt. Hood National Forest, spanning an impressive 1.2 million acres with four wilderness areas and over 1,200 miles of hiking trails.

An anonymously donated grant allowed 100 miles of Bend, Ore.’s mountain bike trails to be assessed for adaptive users in May. Sept. 21, 2023 • Janay Wright, The Bulletin, TNS ...

A literary icon lived most of his life in an Oregon town just outside of Eugene, where visitors can find scenic river trails and family-owned orchards.

Oregon’s Saddle Mountain hiking trail reopens after yearslong closure By Jeff Thompson (OPB) Sept. 6, 2023 2:59 p.m.

Urness is the author of “ Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon ” and “ Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or 503-399-6801.

Collaboration is at the heart of many restoration projects at hiking and other popular recreation sites across our area.

Oregon Trails: A hike to a destination with no name in the Mount Washington Wilderness If you are hiking here, you will hate the burned zone. But if you are skiing, you will love the burn.

Southern Oregon's Spence Mountain offers a 28-mile network of professionally built, public-use trails on 7,400 acres of private land. (Klamath Trails Alliance) ...

The 236-acre park contains 4.25 miles of trails, including nearly two miles open just to mountain bikers and a hiker-only loop that runs just over a mile.

Urness is the author of “ Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon ” and “ Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or 503-399-6801.

In the first part of this “Oregon Trails” adventure, I described the lead-up to the 1877 Nez Perce War. In this second part, I’ll tell about the war and its aftermath.