In every Pacific Northwest calendar I’ve ever purchased, there’s been an image of the Painted Hills. On Instagram and Pinterest, images circulate of a woman traversing a boardwalk, surrounded by
There are trails within each of the three units comprising John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, none of them very long. In truth, you can do every single trail within a unit (not each unit, but a unit) in an entire day. Contributing writer and photographer Rebecca Latson describes the trails she hiked at the Painted Hills Unit of this national monument in Oregon.
JOHN DAY FOSSIL BEDS All the megaforces of the planet come together right here: climate change, cataclysmic volcanism, the birth and death of species across eons.
National parks post record highs, lows in visitors during hectic 2020 in Pacific Northwest
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Visitors hike down the trail to Cleetwood Cove. Views from Rim Drive in Crater Lake National Park.Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
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To say it’s been a hectic year for Northwest national parks is an understatement.
National park sites across the region posted record high numbers of visitors in 2020, as well as record lows, as park managers dealt with the coronavirus pandemic, raging wildfires and swarming crowds of people, some of whom endangered their own safety and the natural landscapes themselves.