Find your own slice of peaceful camping paradise along the Oregon Coast, an area that highlights windswept beaches, dramatic ...

If you are thinking of taking a trip to somewhere you should drive up the California coast and spend a few days in Florence, Oregon, which is nestled between the Pacific Coast and the Siuslaw River.

DUNES CITY, Oregon — Oregon’s has a Sahara by the Sea, and it is one of the state’s most unique geologic features known far and wide as the Oregon Dunes! There are so many ways to explore the Oregon ...

The sands of Arrakis are closer than you might think. Arrakis, Dune, desert planet — the setting for the sci-fi epic coming to movie theaters this week is a planet of sand inhabited by water-starved ...

When Frank Herbert wrote Dune he was a newspaper reporter in Florence, Oregon. The stark sand world that inspired his sci-fi classic is still orbiting the central Oregon Coast. Even without the ...

Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction novel Dune tells the story of a future civilization fighting to control precious resources on a harsh desert planet. The book has been praised as the first ...

DuneFest, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022, is a unique summer event held the first week of August in the tiny town of Winchester Bay, which is the north entrance into the 40-mile-long ...

FLORENCE, Ore. - What is sandboarding? Think snowboarding without the boots and on a mountain of sand. It turns out that Florence is known as the “sandboarding capitol of the world” thanks in part to ...