Chase waterfalls at Crater Lake with the beautiful two-mile-long Plaikni Falls Trail. This is a well-maintained, reasonably flat route (with a short incline at the end) that leads through shaded ...

Visitors can tour the 33-mile Ring Road for beautiful views and take boat rides to explore Wizard Island, a cinder cone that rises 763 feet from the surface of the water. Measuring nearly 2,000 feet ...

Oregon's lone national park, Crater Lake, is arguably one of the most beautiful alpine lakes on the planet. More than 7,700 years ago, an ancient volcano named Mount Mazama erupted and caused the ...

The place in question is Vulcan Point, a small rocky island sitting inside Main Crater Lake, which itself rests within Taal ...

It’s time to open up the voting for the next category in The Oregonian’s Readers Choice Awards: Oregon’s most recognizable ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

Oregon obviously has a lot of beautiful places ... is home to four spots run by the National Park Service, only one, Crater Lake, is a full-fledged national park. Compare that to Washington ...