With the summer camping season just a few months away, it’s hard to imagine worse timing. But Oregon State Parks says starting Thursday, you won’t be able to make camping and day-use reservations for two weeks. Not online, not over the phone.
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Winter still weighs heavily near Mt. Hood, where many popular campgrounds will be closed this holiday weekend because of snow. According to the Mt. Hood National Forest, the closed list includes Trillium Lake, Frog Lake, Clear Lake, Clackamas Lake, Little Crater Lake, and Still Creek. If you booked a site at one of these...
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Think you take good photographs? Here’s a chance to find out just how good you are. Oregon Parks and Recreation’s popular photo contest is back for its third year. The Parks Department is accepting entries from now until August 1st. The rules are pretty simple: Any amateur photographer is eligible, it doesn’t matter how...
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Walk through Oswald West State Park and you’ll soon see why this is one of the most popular spots on the Oregon Coast. It’s the trees. This is one of the last places where you can hike through an ancient spruce-hemlock forest. Many of the trees are 200-400 years old. Some are survivors of...
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