The Painted Hills are a truly bizarre and alien-looking landscape in Eastern Oregon. With rust, sand, tan, and grassy-colored layered hills, scarlet scarred slopes, and charming old-time towns ...

From Crater Lake to the Painted Hills in Oregon, discover some of USA TODAY’s Most Treasured Views in America for 2025.

Of these special places, Oregon's Painted Hills stand out. Considered one of the “Seven Wonders of Oregon,” the Painted Hills are part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and are a ...

The Painted Hills Unit and Sheep Rock Unit are conveniently located off U.S. Route 26, between Prineville and John Day, while the Clarno Unit is found farther north on Oregon Route 218 west of Fossil.

This is the week Travel Oregon hides the Painted Hills bike! Should they hide it in the Painted Hills, it's likely to be found before, or right at, sunrise due to the open landscape and small ...

Click here to subscribe. The russet-striped slopes of Oregon’s Painted Hills look like they’ve been draped in a gently rumpled Pendleton blanket. With their gorgeous bands of reds and golds undulating ...

A state parks advisory committee that met in Salem today voted to officially designate the Painted Hills Scenic Bikeway. The new bikeway becomes the 15th route in the scenic bikeways program which is ...

After previous attempts to create a federal wilderness at Sutton Mountain fizzled, Oregon’s U.S. senators have proposed a national monument instead. Snow dusts Sutton Mountain near Mitchell, Ore.

The colorfully striped Painted Hills of Eastern Oregon are often featured in picture books of the state, but did you know that this scenery isn’t limited to the John Day Fossil Beds National ...