BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Lava River Cave, Oregon’s longest known lava tube, is now open for summer guided tours. The nonprofit Discover Your Forest is offering tours for a second season, after ...

No trip to Central Oregon would be complete without exploring one of the region's defining geological features: the vast expanses of hardened lava that diverted the Deschutes, formed mounds of gumdrop ...

Lava River Cave, one of the top attractions on the Deschutes National Forest, will open this year on May 16. For those traveling to the cave by vehicle, tickets for timed reservations to enter the ...

Despite the 80 degree weather, everyone carried coats as they gathered on a recent Thursday afternoon outside of Lava River Cave for the U.S. Forest Service’s mandatory orientation. Well, almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Lava River Cave exhaled chilled air. I put on my sweatshirt, despite the hot July day. Though I'd been warned about the sudden ...

FLAGSTAFF — Did you know Flagstaff is home to one of the largest lava tube caves in the country? The Lava River Cave in the Coconino National Forest stretches over a mile underground and was formed ...

Escape the outside world on these eight wild treks through lava tubes, caverns, and abandoned tunnels across the U.S.

DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST — We are in one of the darkest, quietest places on earth: An ancient subterranean cave in Central Oregon’s volcanic, sage-covered high desert. At this moment, 30 feet ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest are planning prescribed burn operations Tuesday on the Bend-Fort Rock and Crescent ranger districts, east of Sunriver near Lava River ...

Lava Lands Bend Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Deschutes National Forest. For the first time since 2019, Bend’s popular Lava River Cave should be able to welcome explorers for its entire ...