The monument’s caves date back 40,000 years, when volcanic activity created lava tubes, which cooled and drained to create ...

Both Lava River Cave and the Lava Lands Visitor Center in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument are scheduled to open to the public on Friday. Visitors should expect delays at Lava River Cave due to ...

Those itching to explore the Newberry National Volcanic Monument’s sites can now see the region — Lava Lands Visitor Center, Lava Butte and Lava River cave re-opened Friday. The visitor center and ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Newberry National Volcanic Monument will open key sites to visitors beginning Friday, the Deschutes National Forest said. Beginning on Friday, Lava River Cave will open with daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Lava River Cave, located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument south of Bend on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District, will be closing early this season to allow work in the ...

near Sunriver is complete after two years of construction and the new Lawrence A. Chitwood Exhibit Hall will open to the public Friday, May 1. This new exhibit is the final piece to the grand ...

Some 500,000 years ago, the earth cracked open at what is today near the border of Oregon and California, spewing out lava that covered the landscape and scorched all that lay in its path. What we ...