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This UFO shaped cloud appeared over Mt. Shasta in Northern California on the morning of February 12th, 2020. Lenticular clouds like this are a common sight above Mt. Shasta and can be seen from Southern Oregon…
Cascadia Axe Company is bringing a unique new business to Southern Oregon: a place where you can throw axes, drink craft beer, play board games and learn about artisinal blacksmithing. The new business is scheduled to…
The weekend of February 8th-10th is set to bring some of the highest waves of the year to Coastal Oregon. So just what is a "King Tide"? Planning a future King Tide trip? See our current…
Imagine a bookstore devoted just to children's and young-adult books. Now imagine you can walk through a door in the wall and be in a store devoted just to cookbooks and gardening. Through another door is…
Hells Canyon is the kind of Oregon place that makes you pull over, step out of the car, and briefly forget what you were saying. Carved by the Snake River along the Oregon-Idaho border, it is…
The nation's longest continuous stretch of asphalt starts in Newport, Oregon and ends 3,365 miles away in Boston, MA for one heck of a road trip. Stretching from the Pacific Ocean, US Route 20 extends through…
Oregon is wild, beautiful, diverse, and breathtaking, and one Oregon man is on a mission to share it's captivating beauty with the world through video. Matt Cook makes outdoor exploration videos featuring places to hike, wildlife…
Ah yes. The legend of Bigfoot, the hairy man beast that stands "seven to nine feet tall and weighs between 600 and 900 pounds," according to the Unnatural Museum of History. Bigfoot has has been making…
When people think of Oregon they tend to think of lush green forests filled with ferns, long weeks of rain in the winter, and perhaps of Oregon's abundance of stunning waterfalls. What you might not have…
From humble beginnings in 1890s New Jersey and contracting polio at age 7 (which left her with a lifelong limp), Dorothea Lange went on to become one of the most prolific photojournalists of her era. At…
Oregon is home to a host of magnificent museums, including OMSI, The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, the High Desert Museum, and the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Sometimes the best museums are the quirky lesser known ones…
