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Recent Travel Stories

• Who drained the pool? - 5/19/2013

  It seems every decade or two in Medford, a few people would like to make a splash by taking a deep dive into a pool idea, while others prefer the...

  
• The politics of fish and pine trees - 5/12/2013

  Twenty-five years ago, temperatures already were climbing into the mid-70s as the military transport plane carrying Vice President George Herbert...

  
• Owyhee wildernesses — rugged, remote - 5/12/2013

  BRUNEAU, Idaho — An ocean of grayish-green sagebrush looms from horizon to horizon as you walk the canyon rims of Owyhee wilderness areas.

  
• Shining the light at Trinidad - 5/5/2013

  From their village on the bluffs above the Pacific, Yurok Indians likely watched Portuguese explorer Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño's galleon as it...

  
• Outlaw flavor comes alive at Colorado dude ranch - 5/5/2013

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• A Washington state park gem: Deception Pass - 4/28/2013

  OAK HARBOR, Wash. — If you know only the landmark green bridge at Deception Pass State Park, you don't know this park.

  
• The danger of 'boyish, wild ways' - 4/28/2013

  The life and times of August Singler, the first law enforcement officer and only sheriff in Jackson County killed in the line of duty, are well-known.

  
• Trouble in the book stacks - 4/21/2013

  "If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library."

  
• Enjoy these family nature destinations - 4/21/2013

  The simple pleasures of family life can be found at lakeside retreats. Here are five good places:

• A canoer's getaway in Oregon's high desert - 4/21/2013

  JORDAN VALLEY — Our rig bounced over the rock-hard dirt roads of the high desert of Eastern Oregon, and the canoe shifted and rattled on our...

• A Champion monument - 4/14/2013

  Not long after Champ Payne put a ring on Betty McCollum's finger in April 1852, he and his 17-year-old bride left Missouri for Oregon.

  
• Mountainous mecca - 4/14/2013

  GLACIER NATIONAL PARK — Jagged peaks, a lucky glimpse of a bear or moose, and, of course, glaciers — these sights are just the tip of the...

  
• From Woodville to the big leagues - 4/7/2013

  There's more to spring than April showers watering the flowers.

  
• Chihuly: Blending glass and nature - 4/7/2013

  SEATTLE — Visitors to conservatories and botanical gardens may have already experienced the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly, whose creations...

• North of the Oregon border - 3/31/2013

  Despite well-documented budget woes in the Washington park system, Oregon's neighbor to the north still has one of the best lineups of state parks in...

  
• From Jesse Miller to the Busy Beaver - 3/31/2013

  If you're looking for a specific Miller, you might as well be pitching through a haystack. That's because, according to the U.S.

  
• Try the Grand Canyon's wilder North Rim - 3/24/2013

  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Most trails in this colorful and iconic national park are tough up-and-down trails.

• Watch out for dinosaurs! - 3/24/2013

  When dinosaurs began appearing along the Oregon Coast in 1953, road-weary drivers must have wondered where they'd left their sanity.

  
• A can of gold in the henhouse - 3/17/2013

  In March 1894, just across Bear Creek and southeast of Phoenix, the Danielson boys were cleaning out a chicken coop on the Roberts place.