Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

You can soak in hot springs with mountain views or drive across a vast playa where a 200-foot deep lake once existed.

This part of Oregon has incredible nighttime views of the Milky Way, planets, and deep-sky objects. Here are the best places ...

DarkSky International has designated more than 2.4 million acres in Southeast Oregon, including Lake County, as a dark sky sanctuary, making it the largest in the world. Photograph By Christian ...

When you think of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, you likely think of lush forests, thundering waterfalls, and stunning rocky coastlines. In other words, you wouldn't consider the Beaver State as a ...

Oregon summers present visitors with an embarrassment of riches. How do you choose between coastal breezes, mountain trails, vibrant cities, and high desert adventures? On a recent episode of the Peak ...

Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...

Southeast Oregon is a patchwork of high desert, mountains, and volcanic landscape, stitched together by river canyons and long stretches of solitude. When darkness falls on clear nights across this ...