That’s because the Oregon Outback is home to the world’s largest International Dark Sky Sanctuary, encompassing around 2.5 ...

It looks like a desert mirage. A sailboat, racing across a stone flat and waterless playa, its glittering metallic hull materializing on approach like a Star Wars landspeeder hovering above a desert ...

My heart leapt as soon as we hit the playa. The car's tires breezed across the flat, wide-open space, wind whipping through the open windows. The empty desert opened and stretched on for miles, for ...

Beneath the dry and barren lands of southern Oregon’s Alvord Desert lie many traces of a vast Ice Age lake, along with the lasting marks of an ancient flood that dramatically altered this landscape, ...

Alvord Desert southeast Oregon Visiting the Alvord Desert in Oregon's Harney County I supposed you could look at the good things Oregon's drought will mean. The Alvord Desert in Harney County should ...

See more Outdoors content at IdahoPress.com by clicking hereThe flat, beige-colored bed of the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon will lure you in like the taste of salt on fresh popcorn. The ...

Last month, Mercedes-Benz dropped a new ad that was filmed in Southeast Oregon's Alvord Desert. In it, Brendan Hickey and his father Bart, who is a blind car mechanic, travel west from Illinois for a ...

From the Willamette Valley to the High Desert, there are plenty of natural Oregon hot springs to soak in to keep warm this ...

Share Alvord Desert: The other side of Oregon ByMatt Brace Updated April 11, 2025, first published May 5, 2023 ...

The Alvord Desert. Whatever the reason, sitting on a log overlooking the sublime beauty of Crater Lake in the great state of Oregon, my Portland friend Michael and I decided to turn our backs on the ...