Hikers and campers can enjoy recreational hiking trails, lake swimming, and overnight campgrounds in this national forest ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in the United States, according to researchers at the ...

U.S. Forest Service geologist Gordon Grant calls it a “geologic gift.” University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom described it as “a big water tower” at the top of the mountains. The two ...

When I heard that eastern Oregon counties are thinking of joining Idaho, I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern Washington newspapers suggesting that the citizens of those ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Winter weather is ramping up along the Cascade range in Oregon and Washington as the Portland National Weather Service issued winter weather alerts. Heavy mountain snow is ...

Oregon is forecast to get its first major soaking of the season beginning Oct. 24 and lasting all weekend thanks to an autumn atmospheric river. The Willamette Valley and mountains are likely to see ...

The Cascade Lakes are a series of 14 lakes set within the Cascade Mountain Range in Oregon. The best way to see and reach the ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous and now best-monitored volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range. From southern British Columbia ...

The Cascade Lakes Relay running event is set for Friday and Saturday on a course that includes the mountainous roads of Central Oregon and the desert roads of south-central Oregon. Billed as Oregon’s ...