There is a trail in central Oregon that most people have never heard of, and it ends at the base of a volcanic rock tower so tall and so strange-looking that your brain takes a second to accept it as real. The pillar shoots straight up from the forest floor like something out of a […]

There is a trail in southern Oregon that takes less than a mile to walk and ends at a 50-foot waterfall crashing into a rocky pool. The path follows the North Umpqua River corridor, cuts through a forest that has seen both fire and regrowth, and delivers one of the most satisfying payoffs per step […]