VALE — Close your eyes and imagine a place so grand it makes you feel small compared to the size of the thick, rocky walls that surround you. You can almost feel everything that happened before you to ...

The Owyhee River runs 280 miles through mountains, deserts and the flat, arid plateaus of northern Nevada, southern Idaho and southeastern Oregon. It carves through deep, prominent, multi-color ...

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running ...

Oregon’s Northwest Rafting Co. was voted the second best outfitter for “Best White Water Rafting Tour” on the USA Today 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards. Located in Hood River, Northwest Rafting Co.

The weather’s recent turn from a winter hangover to typical-Northwest-July-type temperatures in the 80s has turned on the spigot for area rivers as a healthy snowpack in Idaho is expected to fuel ...

A wilderness designation is the right way to protect the Owyhee River corridor, writes guest columnist Zachary Collier. (Courtesy of Zachary Collier) As President Joe Biden leaves office, a flurry of ...

That's what skiers in the western U.S. have been saying, thanks to record snowfall throughout the Sierra Nevada and much of the Rockies. As of mid-April, California's statewide snowpack is 237 percent ...