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 ...

For one week each winter, the small town of Joseph swells to host mushers and spectators for Oregon’s Iditarod qualifier sled ...

For their study, the scientists zeroed in the Wallowa Mountains, which are laced with enormous sheets of flat magmatic dikes, created when molten rock flowed into cracks and solidified.

A gem of remote scenic beauty, Joseph is widely known as Oregon's "Little Switzerland" because of its location at the base of the Wallowa Mountains -- which are known as the "Alps of Oregon" and ...

Sometimes called the "Swiss Alps of Oregon," the Wallowa Mountains offer an isolated alternative to the Cascades. Home to the 360,000-acre Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa Lake (complete with tram ...

A Merwin net floats in March 2025 on Wallowa Lake. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is using Merwin nets and gill nets in the spring to conduct research on fish population trends in the ...

The Wallowa Avalanche Center and the Central Oregon Avalanche Center, or COAC, deal with challenges to raising enough money, but they are somewhat insulated from the chaos of the mass federal firings.

From here it’s a typical Blue Mountains barely-wider-than-a-gymnast ... The best time to hike Tick Hill is late fall and spring. Wallowa average highs and lows are March, 52/28; April, 60/ ...