Big Springs Sno Park features a collection of loops that travel through a snowy forest in the Santiam Pass winter recreation ...

The route doesn’t showcase sweeping mountain views, but it does have big-tree forest and makes for a pleasant and less crowded day in the snow. To park at Maxwell you need sno-park permit ...

It’s not very assuming until you get right up to it and you see how big that trunk is. You’re like ‘Holy cow, that’s a big ...

The Douglas fir is an indelible symbol of the Pacific Northwest. The thick-barked native represents the aesthetics of biologically rich Cascadia and the checkered past of overlogging.

Although Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25, former Hutchinson resident Myra Kohls has been in the Christmas spirit since March. That’s when U.S. Forest Service employee Mary Nordeen visited ...