Yurts are now ubiquitous at campgrounds across Oregon, but it wasn’t so long ago that the round structures were a novel concept for campers. This week’s episode of the Peak Northwest podcast dives ...

Stacy Savona recalled it was a typical winter night on the Oregon coast. Winds were gusting and the rain was coming down, but she remained high and dry in her yurt at William M. Tugman State Park near ...

State parks officials are still deciding whether pets should be allowed, but there's no debate about one thing: The nomadic structures are a big hit with Oregon campers Yes or no? Should the pet stay ...

Rustic cabins at Cottonwood Canyon State Park offer a nice overnight option at the remote park site along the John Day River. If you’re getting the itch to go camping this winter, but don’t feel like ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Our state parks in Oregon are well loved. With ever-increasing crowds of campers and a record number of visitors last year, our parks have reached an almost cult-level status of ...

BEND, Ore. — It’s becoming easier and easier for yurt fans to become yurt campers in Central Oregon. Three new yurts are planned for the Link Creek Campground in the Deschutes National Forest. These ...

CAMPING — For the first time, Oregon is making popular yurts and cabins at state parks campgrounds available to visitors with dogs. The new feature begins next year, but the the state began taking ...

Ever so slowly, Oregon's state parks have started reopening a popular way to spend the night in the great outdoors — cabins and yurts. The cozy and heated structures are the most in-demand amenity at ...

Twenty-one Oregon state parks will charge a new parking fee beginning in October and the cost of camping or renting a yurt or cabin will go up in May 2026. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department ...

Even during a year packed with drama, the weekend that shut down Oregon's outdoors remains a surreal moment in state history. Beginning in the coastal town of Warrenton, where mayor Henry Balensifer ...

Alan Bair, founder of Pacific Yurts, photographed inside one of his yurts in 1990. “It was good for the business, and more important, it was good for the state,” Bair said. Oregon state parks are well ...