When I was wandering about yesterday, looking for a campsite with lots of sunshine, I saw this on Google Satellite View: The gray patche...

The Forest Service publishes Motor Vehicle Use maps showing where you can drive and, as a bonus, where dispersed camping is allowed. I...

It being Monday, the ranger station in Sisters was open. I drove in to get some information. They gave me a fine, big, map of the local Nati...

After five days it felt like it was time to move on. The majority opinion would probably say I should head to the coast, see those famou...

I was sitting, enjoying the rare Pacific Northwest sunshine. I had gazed at the distant view, examined the closer view, and I had gotten dow...

Looking down at a chunk of the Mt. Hood National Forest. The Columbia River is on the other side of the tan hills. Obscured by clouds are...

Sigh. I like my campsite in the Mt. Hood National Forest, but the overcast is making it hard to keep my solar batteries charged. So, it'...

The previous campsite had that nice deep-in-the-forest quality to it, but there was very little opportunity for sunlight and too much opport...

I have a nephew with the Forest Service. In the Mt. Hood area. Lucky me, that's where I wanted to camp. So he gave me some tips on boo...

If someone were to say, "Wanna see a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County, Washington, who lost their lives in WWI?...

Sunday afternoon it settled in my mind. Oregon it is. I bid my thanks and farewells to Ophelia and Peter, stopped at Jiffy Lube to have th...

So, there I was, stopped at a gas station near Glacier National Park, feeling like I’d had more than my fill of rivers, lakes and forested ...