Mount Hood's ski trails have never looked so good. The new "Mount Hood Winter Trails" map, hot off the press on water and tear resistant paper, shows many cross-county ski and some snowmobile ...

Popular areas like Tamanawas Falls and Mt. Defiance, together amounting to about 30,000 acres, would be incorporated into the 311,000 acres of designated wilderness already in the Mt. Hood ...

Wilderness designation is the highest level of protection federal land can have. A 2009 bill protects 127,000 acres in the Mount Hood National Forest with that label.

Mount Hood Wilderness beckons visitors to Elk Meadows: Terry's top 10 trails. ... Map: Mount Hood Wilderness by Geo-Graphics. Manager: Mount Hood National Forest, 503-622-4822, ...

If passed, the bill would preserve almost 127,000 acres around Mount Hood with Wilderness protection and add almost 80 miles on nine free-flowing stretches of rivers to the National Wild and ...

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, Ore. - Search crews were combing the wilderness around Mount Hood for a Portland woman who disappeared while camping with her boyfriend. Hood River Sheriff's deputies said 28 ...

Mount Hood Wilderness. CHICAGO — In a case arising from a man’s drowning on U.S. Forest Service property in Oregon, the Seventh Circuit ruled that a $5 pass qualifies as a parking fee of less than $15 ...

PORTLAND -- A new survey says that almost 140,000 people a year venture into the wilderness areas of the Mount Hood National Forest, about twice as many as previous estimates. Survey results are ...

Mt. Hood National Forest closure map (ODFW) "The area closure will remain in effect for 30 days and could be rescinded early or extended depending on circumstances on the ground," Pramuk notes.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two stories of survival in as many weeks. Last week, a hiker survived five days lost in the Mt. Hood wilderness. And this week, a hunter was found nearly four days after he lost ...

Last September, two U. S. Geological Survey geologists and three graduate students from Portland State University trudged through the wilderness on the north side of Mount Hood. Their mission: Dig ...