Waterfalls can feel like a dime a dozen in Oregon, where hundreds of documented plunges and multiple “waterfall corridors” are found in the Columbia River Gorge, Willamette Valley, Coast Range and, ...

Mazama is a tiny Washington community about 4.5 hours northeast of Seattle. It's improbably small, home to just a few hundred full-time residents, yet this speck on the map manages to host around 0.5 ...

Backpacking in the high country of the Cascades is exhilarating for many reasons. Among them is that it’s only accessible for a few months of the year. That window is open now. And few places in ...

LAKE PLACID — Hikers will walk through private as well as public land as they hike to some of the state’s most popular mountains this Columbus Day weekend. To avoid overcrowding of cars and people at ...

The Pacific Northwest may not be the first destination that comes to mind for fall foliage, but Washington state has some of the country's most spectacular autumn road trips. The 400-mile Cascade Loop ...