Oregonians will soon have more options to go camping now that the State Parks Department is finalizing details on a capital improvement plan.

Rob Gann travels the country as a jester in the rodeo of life. His clowning fills the lulls in the action. It also takes the edge off a sport that can be dangerous and unforgiving.

Blair Braverman says if she lets go of the sled, the dogs will race on without her. The question, she says, is not how to get sled dogs to go. Rather, it's how do you get them to stop?

After 5-year-old Naomi Pascal lost her beloved stuffed animal during a hike, her family wasn't sure it would ever turn up again. One park ranger's kind heart changed that.

Obscure baseball teams

Ashland, Oregon's many hiking trails

A new permit system and a thick, ever-present blanket of wildfire smoke gave some of Oregon’s most popular trails a break from crowds this summer.

A look at a bullfighting training center in San Isidro, Texas.

Autumn has arrived and NPR's Brian Mann sends a postcard from a wilderness paddle into fall color.

Pacific Northwest forest managers have lifted most campfire restrictions. But wildfires are still active in some parts of the region, so people should check for restrictions before lighting their kindling.

More than half the people who bought Central Cascades Wilderness Permits before the season started never showed up to hike.

Squaw Valley hosted an Olympics, but it now has a new name. "It's a term that was inflicted upon us by somebody else and we don't agree with it," an official of the Washoe Tribe says.