POLK COUNTY, Oregon — Some of the best places in Oregon are often hiding in plain sight! Like the nearby Luckiamute River that is home to mountain bike trails, wonderful waterfalls and a new Oregon ...

The Little Luckiamute River cuts a bee-line through eastern flanks of the Oregon Coast Range before it falls in an ear-shattering moment at Falls City. While less than three miles away another sort of ...

The overflowing Luckiamute River in Polk County is causing minor flooding that's predicted to last through Thursday. Heavy rains on Sunday and Monday caused the river to rise to a peak of 30.3 feet ...

Detail of the Willamette River from a lidar data image, showing the Luckiamute River (left) and the Santiam River (right) joining it. (Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries) The twists ...

Consider yourself lucky if you have time to visit Luckiamute. This 900-plus acre, relatively new Oregon state park puts visitors in a rare ecosystem, the mid-Willamette Valley. Public access to tracts ...

A stretch of land that separates the two halves of Luckiamute Landing State Natural Area has been eyed by conservationists for decades. The recent purchase by Greenbelt Land Trust of the 110 acres ...

Acres: 925 acres. It’s bordered on the east by the Willamette River. The Luckiamute River flows through the north tract, emptying into the Willamette. Fees: None. Things to do: The 310-acre south ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In 1922, Sarah Helmick donated a nearly 5.5-acre plot of land along the Luckiamute River to the state of Oregon — the first of nearly 200 state parks that would form in the ...

Cliff Hall estimates that he and his wife, Gay, have planted somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 native trees and bushes on their Kings Valley property, gradually turning the heavily grazed ...