Short Sand Beach at Oswald West State Park might just be the remedy you never knew you needed. Tucked away on Oregon’s spectacular northern coastline, this hidden gem offers the kind of natural beauty ...

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The Painted Hills are a truly bizarre and alien-looking landscape in Eastern Oregon. With rust, sand, tan, and grassy-colored ...

They then drove up and down a highway east of Bend, finally pulling into a parking lot near a bike trail outside a different forest, part of the Oregon Badlands Wilderness area.

After federal officials began a sweep of a vast forest in Oregon, most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left. But they didn’t go far. With nowhere else to go, many drove ...

At an “Oregon Badlands Wilderness” sign at the bottom of a hill, turn left on a paved road for one mile. Then turn left into the fenced gravel Badlands Rock Trailhead. From the Badlands Trailhead walk ...

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Ancient juniper trees border trails in Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness. The Oregon Badlands Wilderness, so named for its wild and rugged terrain, lies just 15 miles east of Bend, Oregon.

The Moon Pit is a 440-acre site located about 16 miles southeast of Bend off Highway 20, adjacent to the Oregon Badlands Wilderness. County records state the Badlands Rock Trailhead is about 700 ...

The Oregon Badlands Wilderness Act was signed into law in 2009, permanently protecting the Badlands. The 3-mile trek to Flatiron Rock is a rambling stroll that can take about an hour.

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The pair were out hiking in the Badlands Wilderness Area, Oregon, when they encountered the bodies of a cat, a pitbull dog, a fox and a doe all close to the trail and the nearby Highway 20.