The land that has become Cottonwood Canyon State Park had been in the Murtha family of Condon and Portland since the 1930s as a working cattle ranch. With three siblings in their 80s, the family ...

behind Silver Falls State Park. However, state lands at Cottonwood Canyon is intermixed with 10,000 acres of federal BLM land, which may also become, in effect, part of the park. According to a ...

The sagebrush has just begun to bloom at Oregon's newest state park, Cottonwood Canyon. The bright bloom paints the shrub-steppe in yellow where more than 8,000 acres of grasslands and deep ...

Not far from the town of the Dalles is Cottonwood Canyon State Park, a 8,000-acre preserve along one of the John Day's most impressive stretches, and a must-visit for any nature lovers who find ...

Yet the park has the beauty that lifelong desert dwellers sometimes have trouble explaining to their friends. Cottonwood Canyon State Park, which opens this weekend, lies along the John Day River ...