Steens Mountain, located in the remote southeastern corner of Oregon, offers breathtaking landscapes and diverse ecosystems. While many travelers assume a 4×4 vehicle is necessary to explore this ...

It has been called the most spectacular drive in Oregon. The Steens Mountain Loop Road departs the tiny, historic town of Frenchglen and climbs up Oregon’s eighth-tallest mountain on a tour of massive ...

stands in an area of southeast Oregon so isolated that it's barely changed since cattle king arrived in the late 1800s. Coyotes yelp at sundown. Drivers are so few that they wave to each other as they ...

When the peak of fall color hits on Steens Mountain is anybody's guess. This year, my guess is late next week, say Sept. 29-30. I visited the giant Harney County fault-block range on Sept. 16-17, but ...

Escarpments on the east face of Steens Mountain near the Mann Lake Ranch. A simulation of what Echanis’ wind turbines will look like on Hoyt Wilson’s Mann Lake Ranch. On a hazy autumn day, Fred Otley ...

Way out west where ranchers’ mailboxes are 50-gallon drums set on their side, I drove northwest of Winnemucca on a straight-line course to Denio, Nevada. As I crossed into Oregon the only trees I saw ...

Oregon’s eighth tallest mountain, a 50-mile-long scarp in the desert, makes for a delightful getaway in fall when the starry nights are crisp and the quaking aspen shiver golden leaves. Just don’t ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - An environmental group is fighting the Bureau of Land Management's road building in the Steens Mountain area. The Oregon Natural Desert Association says off-road vehicles, which ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, something remarkable happened in Oregon’s High Desert. On October 30, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and ...

Vancouver-based Columbia Energy Partners and its financial affiliate CEP Funding have officially abandoned plans to develop two of three wind energy projects planned ...