If you'd like to get out in the wilderness, but aren't quite sure whether you've got the know-how, you need to find someone who can give you a hand, or at least point you in the right direction.

The 2009 Oregon Outdoors Wild Bird Photo Contest is under way.

Short family hikes this time of year can be difficult.

Training for volunteer whale watchers opens Dec. 5 and 6 in Newport for the winter Whale Watch Week that runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.

There couldn't be a more remote mud bath in Oregon than the Whitehorse Hot Springs.

In only two years, the Lithia Loop Marathon in Ashland has gone from a new race that needed to prove itself to a national championship event.

November is a great month to get ready for ski season without spending a ton of dough — and you can help local students at the same time.

A hike with children is usually more interesting for the kids if there's something at the end of the trail.

Rattlesnake Rapids is the toughest white water to negotiate on the upper Rogue River, and it often scares rafters and driftboaters away from boating the section between Dodge Bridge and TouVelle State Park.

Birds of a different feather landed in Lithia Park Saturday — 254 of them to be precise.