Gabriel Vaughn was reported missing on Feb. 16 after he set off for a rafting trip along the Illinois River ...

Image via Getty Images A 25-year-old managed to survive 5 days in the Oregon wilderness. He went missing after going on a ...

A 26-year-old rafter who vanished during a trip on Oregon’s Illinois River was rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter after ...

A hiker lost for five days in the wilderness has been found. Gabriel Vaughn, 25, left his group on Monday (Feb 16) to go ...

A hiker lost for five days in the wilderness has been found. Gabriel Vaughn, 25, left his group on Monday, Feb. 16, to go hiking in the woods during a rafting trip on Oregon's Illinois River. It is ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with rescinding a two-decade-old rule that protects wild areas in national forests across the country, including nearly 2 million acres in Oregon, a move ...

A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Oregon rescued an injured man on Friday who’d been in the Josephine County wilderness near the Illinois River for at least four days. Gabriel Vaughn, 25, had last ...

In this edition of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness takes a deep dive into perhaps the wildest place in Oregon — the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. This episode, originally published in 2022, ...