HAPPY VALLEY, Ore. — At Happy Valley Park, it’s all about playing, exploring — and now, discovering. The city just celebrated the grand opening of a new TRACK Trail — a kid-friendly, self-guided ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

Wendy Gorton’s family-friendly hiking guides are informative and fun for everyone– not just kids. All listed hikes are low-level difficulty— under four miles and an elevation gain of less than 900 ...

More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...