The Cottonwood Canyon brand is on display in several places around the state park. The design was created by three Grass Valley Elementary School students who won a competition prior to the park’s ...

UPDATE: Firefighters stopped forward progress on the Cottonwood Fire Tuesday night, allowing for the reopening of Highway 206. The size of the grass-fueled blaze was estimated at 4,000 acres. It is ...

Oregon state parks reported a decline in visitors in 2025, a trend that affected even the state’s least-visited park sites.

WASCO, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new wildfire southeast of Wasco in north-central Oregon raced across more than 2,300 acres on both sides of the John Day River on Tuesday, prompting closure of a state highway ...

Cottonwood Canyon Fire Photo courtesy of Sherman County Sheriff's Office. Right before the busy Labor Day weekend camping rush, Oregon State Parks has evacuated one of its sites due to a fast-moving ...

This story was updated at 4:44 p.m. Tuesday. Lightning strikes brought some 50 new wildfires to Western Oregon last week, and now some of those fires have grown into a blazes bringing air quality ...

The 16,000-acre Cottonwood Canyon State Park on the lower John Day River is Oregon’s third certified “International Dark Sky Park.” The organization DarkSky International certifies a variety of types ...

An old farm plow rusts along the banks of the John Day River and the Hard Stone Trail at Cottonwood Canyon State Park. As I rounded the first corner on the Pinnacles ...

Scott Green was driving toward Cottonwood Canyon State Park on the night of June 11 when he first saw the glow of the Ferry Fire. The park’s manager couldn’t tell exactly where the fire was moving, ...