Cascade Locks
There are places in Oregon that everyone knows about, and then there are places like Laurance Lake, sitting peacefully inside Mount Hood National Forest near Parkdale, waiting for the people who are willing to look a little harder. If you’ve been craving the kind of quiet that actually sticks with...
You can see it from across the river. A 200-foot band of columnar basalt leaning toward the Columbia, right off Highway 14 near White Salmon. Locals call it “The Syncline” because the rock layers fold and tilt down toward the water, and the trailhead sits at the foot of it. From there, more than 30 miles of trails spread up and across the ridge.
Pull on your favorite holiday sweater and spend a festive day in White Salmon! Village Lights returns Saturday, December 5, 2026, bringing holiday shopping, hands-on activities, live music, wine tasting, and a community tree and menorah lighting to town. From a morning fun run to photos with Santa and a...
HOOD RIVER, Ore. (Nov. 12, 2026) — The Hood River–White Salmon Bridge Authority has completed its preparatory field activities on the Hood River–White Salmon Bridge ahead of schedule. As a result, the daytime traffic impacts scheduled from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, are no longer needed.
Like many members of Generation Z, Representative-elect Hank Sanders, a Democrat living in Hood River, recently turned 26 and aged out of his family’s health insurance plan. “That’s my weekend plan,” he said in a phone interview. “Nobody punch me. Nobody hurt me for the next couple weeks while I figure out my healthcare.”
