The Oregon Trail was once the most widely distributed software in US schools. It gripped a generation and changed gaming ...

Buzzy beach towns, big backpacking trips and a novel way to go wine tasting are all in store for your Pacific Northwest travel plans in 2025.

Our outdoors team reported in 2024 on hot springs, waterfalls, underwater forests and places with chunky brook trout.

In modern games like Fallout, players expect random encounters when they're charting a course through the map, a feature he says The Oregon Trail helped cement. But one of the biggest influences ...

This year the Statesman Journal outdoors staff went diving into an underwater forest, skied during an extreme heat wave and reeled some chunky brook trout from Oregon’s backcountry lakes.

You don’t need to travel far to find an excellent hike in the Willamette Valley. Here's a roundup of the best hikes near the ...

Is there anything as romantic as an epic road trip with the one you love by your side? On a road trip, there are no ...

Until recently, gray wolves weren’t seen in California for about 100 years. Tulare County’s Yowlumni Pack is the state’s ...

Oh, the places we went. I’m looking back at a year of travel, both for Seattle Met and for fun and the trips that fell ...

The May 27 Curious Iowa story looked into the development of Washington County’s barn quilt loops, the preservation of old ...

A contentious race for the White House dominated national headlines in 2024, but there wasn’t much ballot suspense in Eagle ...

For those who dozed through it, or flipped to more compelling fare in the NFL, here's a brief recap of the rollout of the ...