Alpine lakes, mountain ridges, creek meadows, high-desert juniper and sage — campers have a wide choice of places to go in Idaho and neighboring states, with millions of acres to camp as close as an ...

VALE — Close your eyes and imagine a place so grand it makes you feel small compared to the size of the thick, rocky walls that surround you. You can almost feel everything that happened before you to ...

Summary: These pilots and passengers pitch tents in places their grounded counterparts can only dream about The unusual description on the Oregon aeronautical chart was what appealed to Bill Olson. It ...

The Owyhee Canyonlands is a place that radiates with magic. Here, ancient lava rock erodes into honeycombs and lush sagebrush blooms from gnarled branches. Mysterious thundereggs and agates can be ...

The Owyhee River takes you on an intoxicating desert run. In 1865, after fording the Owyhee and crossing the valley, Major G. Kimball wrote in his diary, “I was brought up to believe there is a Hell ...

An ocean of grayish-green sagebrush looms from horizon to horizon as you walk the canyon rims of Owyhee wilderness areas. The only sounds are natural ones -- the wind, rustling grasses and brush, and ...

A wilderness designation is the right way to protect the Owyhee River corridor, writes guest columnist Zachary Collier. (Courtesy of Zachary Collier) As President Joe Biden leaves office, a flurry of ...

Legislation to protect southeast Oregon’s Owyhee River canyon passed the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, both Oregon ...

The 1,500-foot-high rhyolite cliffs flanking Oregon's Owyhee River were a feast of sunlight and shadow to the eye and lens, while the high desert river alternated between pools and Class III-plus ...