Sirens and bullhorns blared before sunrise, stirring people sleeping in tents and cabins nestled into the lush forest of Silver Falls State Park. By the time the sun rose through smoke-filled skies ...

MEHEMA — It wasn’t the smoothest rollout for a new system of rules in the Little North Santiam Canyon last summer. The U.S. Forest Service and Marion County implemented a system that limited parking ...

In the late 2010s, Michelle King worked at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument to help restore a landscape transformed by natural disaster. She didn’t know it at the time, but the work ...

The road to Opal Creek leads to a couple of pleasant, forested, streamside campgrounds. Elkhorn Valley is one of the most popular in the Salem BLM district's arsenal of campgrounds. Shady Cove is a ...

Daniel Dundon peers across a swimming hole and waterfall in the off-trail area of the Opal Creek Wilderness east of Salem, Ore., on July 30. The area has transformed from ground zero in the so-called ...

Gold was first found in the Opal Creek Watershed in 1859. The legacy of the ensuing gold rush left many hillsides up and down the narrow valleys dotted with mine shafts. Silver King — the group of ...

One of the most beloved destinations in Oregon looks a lot different following the blowup of the Beachie Creek Fire. Large swaths of the 34,000-acre Opal Creek Wilderness and Recreation Area burned ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - One of the most beloved destinations in Oregon looks a lot different following the blowup of the Beachie Creek Fire. Large swaths of the 34,000-acre Opal Creek Wilderness and ...

OPAL CREEK WILDERNESS, Ore. (AP) - Michael Donnelly’s legs were laced with cuts and bleeding, Daniel Dundon had been attacked by a swarm of hornets and I had hiked through enough devil’s club to make ...