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.

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.

The snow continues to melt in the mountains, and now most all high-elevation trails in the Central Oregon Cascades are ...

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.

Walk back down the mountain the way you came for 0.6 mile, but when you reach the old gravel service road, follow it left. It descends 1.2 miles back to the gate on the road where you left your car.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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) ...