After a major illness forced us to miss our “grand adventure” last summer, we wanted to make this summer’s adventure trip absolutely epic. We have 6 kids, so it needed to be…
History
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Not far from Eugene, high in the rugged, remote mountains in the southernmost reaches of Oregon’s Lane County, take a hike through history. The Bohemia Mining District east of Cottage Grove reveals…
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We poured over the map of lost gold mines in Oregon, 4 heads bent together, deciding which abandoned mine to try and locate. Decision made, we set out, first by vehicle and…
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As we got more into rock hounding in Oregon, one adventure on our to-do list was fossil collecting in Fossil, Oregon. Collecting fossils is often a sticky legal situation, but in Fossil, Oregon,…
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While paging through an Oregon State Parks guide, I noticed a listing for a state park less than an hour from home. What is this?! I thought we’d been to all the…