As the glow of artificial light has spread across the world, the number of places dark enough to see a sky rich with stars has shrunk. In North America and across Oregon, only a small percentage of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything feels just a little bigger in the Oregon Outback. The mountains are steeper, history deeper, night skies darker and ...

The stars are big and bright deep in the heart of Oregon. Think “Oregon,” and the state’s western woods and misty mountains likely come to mind; moss-shrouded, eternally drizzly, evocatively lush. But ...

The Oregon Outback has been certified as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, making it the largest of its kind in the world. The 2.5 million acres of sanctuary in Lake County of southeastern Oregon ...

A 2.5 million-acre swath of southern Oregon has been named the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world. The region, which on Monday was officially named the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky ...

Lake, Harney and Malheur counties are so vast that they remind people of the Australian Outback. The Oregon Outback in the state's southeast corner, with its rugged mountains, deep canyons and ...

Everything except the bike (and my phone, which I took the photo with). (Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) I had no idea what to expect before riding 505 miles in three ...

Southeast Oregon is a patchwork of high desert, mountains, and volcanic landscape, stitched together by river canyons and long stretches of solitude. When darkness falls on clear nights across this ...

Everything feels just a little bigger in the Oregon Outback. The mountains are steeper, history deeper, night skies darker and cuts of steak thicker than anyone has a right to expect in remote ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks about the recently established Oregon Outback International Dark SkySanctuary. The 2.5 million acre sanctuary, located east of ...

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