This picture of Lower Oneonta Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, taken by Kyle Martz of Salem in April 2015, got 75 votes in the Statesman Journal’s Winter Waterfall photography contest. Hikers won’t ...
The Yakama Indians got it right when — long before Lewis and Clark, covered wagons and the Columbia Gorge Highway — they named this natural wonder Oneonta, "Beautiful Place." The water is gin-clear, ...
Hikers won’t be able to return to Oneonta Gorge anytime soon. The off-trail trek, which skyrocketed to popularity on social media in the early 2010s but struggled under the weight of overcrowding, has ...