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 ...

There is no trail to Family Falls, and it can't be found on official maps. Clues about the location are whispered between friends, a secret known only to those willing to bushwhack into a canyon of ...

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 ...

Forest officials said Opal Creek would not reopen this summer, as previously suggested, and would target spring of 2027.

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 ...

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 ...

A growing wildfire in the Opal Creek Wilderness has brought multiple closures to the popular recreation area and numerous people were evacuated Sunday evening, police said. The Beachie Creek Fire is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 2010s, Michelle King worked at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument to help restore a landscape transformed by ...