When traveling to the Wallowa Mountain area, you’ll find no shortage of amazing hikes with views of the so-called “Oregon Alps.” The Wallowa Lake East Moraine, which opened to the public only a couple ...

BAKER CITY — There was a big problem on the trail at BC Creek, on the edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness near Wallowa Lake. Fortunately the solution was standing right beside the fast-flowing mountain ...

The East Moraine hike seems too good to be true. In an area already replete with incredible outdoor destinations – the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Zumwalt Prairie, Hells Canyon and Wallowa Lake itself – it ...

The Wallowa River Railroad Hike is not considered one of northeast Oregon’s finest. Guidebooks can’t recommend it. Locals will point you elsewhere. It’s not even on AllTrails. The Wallowa Mountains, ...

On the morning of our departure, the hike was shaping up as yet-another jaunt up the West Fork of the Lostine River to Minam Lake, over Carper Pass to Lakes Basin, then down the East Fork to the ...

If you go now you might not witness day-glow green baby grasshoppers taking their first hops, as I did on a climb of Tick Hill last June. Then, winter was a distant memory. Now the snowy season is ...

Editor’s note: Explore contributor Gensheng Tian hiked the Wallowa River Loop Trail in August. This is the first of three installments. It was 1:30 a.m. In my car, I followed the GPS, sipping coffee ...

The Wallowa band of the Nez Perce tribe was driven out of Oregon by the U.S. Army in 1877, but the band’s descendants have bought their old winter campsite at the foot of the mountains and now welcome ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland State University professor has just done something no one else has done before, and few people have even attempted. He’s climbed all the major peaks in Easter Oregon ...

Eli Boschetto was early in the development of a new edition of “100 Classic Hikes: Oregon,” when he suffered a heart attack. The incident set him back a year as he took time away from hiking and ...

There’s no doubt that the hikes in Oregon are spectacular. And if you ask us, this state has some of the best hiking in the country (#NotAtAllBiased). From enchanting coastal vistas to foggy majestic ...