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The Pacific Northwest is a prime region for ghost towns, with its desert areas preserving long-abandoned structures. Reddit ...

JOSEPH — Gwendolyn Trice hasn't always felt comfortable in rural eastern Oregon. Growing up Black in a predominantly white area brought many challenges and led her to move away from her home in La ...

When it comes to the complete list of every national park in America, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park tops it as one ...

Around the turn of the century, the town of Encampment was best known for mining the copper-rich Sierra Madre Mountains. But in more recent history, logging brought jobs to the small town in southern ...

A small former logging town nestled deep in the woods, near the ocean, rural and eclectic, with a distinct focus on tourism and nature-sounds like the perfect location for a story about vampires! Or ...

The Twilight books and movies transformed Forks, Wash., the remote logging town where they were set. Forks struggled after losing its main industry. Then the vampires brought an economic boost. This ...

SAPPHO, Wash. (AP) -- The Sappho Junction cafe, store and gas station, the last remnant of a once-bustling logging camp on the western Olympic Peninsula, has been destroyed by fire. The business at ...

STRUGGLING: The once-bustling town of North Fork lost its last lumber mill in 1994 Supermarket owner Jim Willis says his store remains open only because he’s “borrowed to the hilt” NORTH FORK, Calif. ...

Leavenworth feels like a dream spun out of the Alps and set down in the Cascades. Timbered chalets line the streets, the scent of pretzels and bratwurst drifts through mountain air, and every ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first "Twilight" book. The fictional story of vampires, werewolves and teenage love is set in the real town of Forks, Washington. It was once the ...