From ATV rentals to sandboarding, there's plenty to do at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, a 31,500 acre portion of the Siuslaw National Forest.

The Oregon Dunes is 32,000 acres from Florence to Coos Bay that offers endless sand dunes, forests, rivers and lakes.

Home to the world's first sandboard park, this Oregon coast features ancient dunes over 500 feet high and offers the ideal setting for an adrenaline-packed day.

A rare plant that grows in the coastal dunes of Southern Oregon may soon be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made an official ...

Sand dune phacelia has declined to 25 naturally occurring populations, many of them with few remaining plants, including in iconic places like Oregon’s Cape Blanco. The plants are threatened by ...

Grant's Getaways explores the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area; home to 32,000 acres of sand, forest, rivers and lakes.

The sand dune phacelia is threatened by off-road vehicles, invasive species like European beech grass and gorse, and climate change-driven sea-level rise. Its small population size makes it even more ...

Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Monday to protect the sand dune phacelia as threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...

Still, the sand dunes of the Oregon coast retain the majesty that inspired Frank Herbert more than 60 years ago. Spencer says she feels the alien landscape of Dune every time she visits.

A 54-year-old man hurt in a fall off an Oregon sand dune was rescued after hikers found him five days later, the Coos County sheriff’s department said.