Interior Oregon's largest sand dunes lie at forest's edge. Summer Lake, Winter Ridge: The sprawling desert lake is famous for its annual waterfowl migration spectacle, especially snow geese.

Big Sand Gap is the 300-foot deep notch in low mountains on the southeast edge of the Alvord Desert's dry lake bed. The two-mile hike to the gap from the edge of the playa is through a sandy ...

Explore one of Oregon's most underrated but otherworldly natural areas with incredible desert views and hiking trails close to the ... try a three-hour loop made up of the Sand Lily, Mazama ...

In Oregon a quarter of our state is desert, and we'd better be getting proud of it. Reub Long says that if we don't the dudes will take us just like we took the Indians.

King heads to Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park in a sand-colored CX-50 that blends in with the area’s high desert landscape. Thirty miles northeast of Bend, the park spans 650 acres and features ...

From Cape Kiwanda to South Sister, the Rogue River and Wallowa Lake Tram, these are the best places to explore and eat in ...

Oregon’s high desert is a shoulder season paradise for outdoors lovers . Nov. 9, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Nov. 9, 2024 at 7:00 am . By . Syma Mohammed. Special to The Seattle Times.

Historically, much of the dunes in Oregon and Washington were sparsely vegetated mounds of loose sand. To keep the grains from blowing into and overwhelming nearby settlements, there was an ...

High Desert Real Estate Photography. Location. Juniper Preserve resort is located on 640 acres in Bend, Oregon, with views of Mount Bachelor and the Cascades, Three Sisters Wilderness, and Smith Rock.