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Between Boise And The Oregon Border Is A City Gateway To Canyons, Basalt Cliffs, Riverfront Hot Springs

If you're looking for an outdoor adventure across the Pacific Northwest, this Idaho-Oregon border town is the perfect ...
KREM

Adventuring down the deepest gorge in America via Snake River

OREGON, USA — Ready for a vacation that really gets away from it all? We go on the road to distant eastern Oregon on this week’s getaway where we find ourselves both in and atop the deepest gorge in ...
OPB

Eastern Oregon’s Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the US, is surprisingly young

That’s according to a new study that looked at ancient river sediments that have long been hidden away inside the canyon’s caves, which now lie high above today’s Snake River. This new work is ...
NPR

Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young

Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, likely got rapidly carved 2.1 million years ago when a shifting landscape in Idaho caused a giant lake to start overflowing. That's ...
Seattle Times

A Hells Canyon rafting trip brings a writer and his stepfather closer

The deepest canyon in all of North America lies 320 miles east of Seattle near the Idaho border. Nestled among the Seven Devils Mountains, Hells Canyon is 81 miles of jaw-dropping high desert ...