There are many hiking trails in the U.S., but some are so dangerous that they're better avoided. Here are the ones you should ...

Is there anything as romantic as an epic road trip with the one you love by your side? On a road trip, there are no ...

Our outdoors team reported in 2024 on hot springs, waterfalls, underwater forests and places with chunky brook trout.

This rain season, spanning July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, has followed a classic La Niña pattern, where the storm track ...

This year the Statesman Journal outdoors staff went diving into an underwater forest, skied during an extreme heat wave and reeled some chunky brook trout from Oregon’s backcountry lakes.

The study used factors such as average annual, summer, and winter temperatures, elevation, and shoreline density to determine ...

Credit: KEYT photo Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews responded to a vegetation fire in Tepusquet Canyon Tuesday night ... 4500 block of Tepusquet Road, east of Santa Maria, according ...

An effort to protect nearly 1 million acres of eastern ... this month, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek had asked President Joe Biden to preserve the area, known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon,” if ...

Several trails run lengthwise through the canyon including the rugged, multi-day Tonto Trail, which wanders 70 miles from east to west below the South Rim. Two condors soar over the Colorado River ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A debate is intensifying over how to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands, a vast million-acre expanse of rugged, remote land in far eastern Oregon where upland bird hunting and ...

After visiting all 50 US states, I've fallen in love with stunning national parks, big cities, and rugged coastlines.