Episode 06: Oregon State Parks Budgets + Long Distance Trails

Oregon Outdoors Cast is a collaboration of Zach Urness from Salem's Statesman Journal and Jared Kennedy from Outdoor Project. Each week (or two) we’ll bring you a short-format podcast with the best of Oregon’s outdoors, covering topics ranging from the biggest stories impacting the area to the best places to get outside.

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Episode 06 - Oregon State Parks Budgets + Long Distance Trails

In this week's Oregon Outdoors Cast Zach and Jared continue the theme of Oregon State Parks, this time discussing the upcoming budget and plans to increase budgets from a variety of sources to fund hiring additional park rangers. The podcast also discussed the plan to complete the Oregon Coast Trail, a thru-hike along the entire Oregon Coast, as well as other long distance trails coming to Oregon. Zach and Jared also touch on places they visited during the past week. 

News headlines mentioned in this episode:

• Connecting the 367-mile Oregon Coast Trail
• The 670-mile Timber Trail Launch (via Bike Portland) + Route Launch Party

​And here are the guides to some of the destinations listed in this podcast:

• Navigating the Oregon Coast Trail (a guide to the trail)
• Mosier Creek Falls + Plateau Trail
• Oregon Desert Trail (via Oregon Natural Desert Association)

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