It seems to happen every time I ride this quintessential Central Oregon loop. Just when I think the climbing is over after arriving at Happy Valley, it only becomes increasingly steeper and imposing.

ASHEVILLE - From a vantage point along stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, at popular peaks like Craggy Pinnacle, you might glimpse a shimmering 5.8 billion-gallon lake, fed by mountain streams. It ...

Twice in two decades, enormous transmission lines have washed out at North Fork Reservoir after torrential, hurricane-induced rain events, leaving city residents without water for days on end. In ...