Let’s face it: Backpacking the challenging and often remote Oregon Desert Trail in southeastern Oregon may not make your list of things to do this year, or ever. The trail is an ambitious, 750 ...

Explore one of Oregon's most underrated but otherworldly natural areas with incredible desert views and hiking trails close to the city of Bend.

In this episode, host Zach Urness revisits the Oregon Desert Trail, a challenging but beautiful route that travels through the best of Eastern Oregon.

The isolated hiking trails through this arid desert wander through sheer canyon walls, craggy peaks, red-rock formations and raging rapids. It may be lonely but there is no better place in Oregon ...

In this episode, host Zach Urness revisits the Oregon Desert Trail, a challenging but beautiful route that travels through the best of Eastern Oregon.

The Oregon Natural Desert Association will use the results to map the trail and load waypoints onto a website to guide users to parking areas, hiking corridors, water holes and campsites.

Urness: There’s also great hiking and backpacking out there on the Oregon Desert Trail and Hart Mountain. So your advice would be to pick something that you like already and then just take the ...

Clegg of Bend, Oregon, is the first person to traverse the entire Oregon Desert Trail, hiking and biking nearly 800 miles from Bend to Ontario, Oregon, near the Idaho border.