In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast , host Zach Urness talks about plans to reopen beloved Opal Creek, the five year anniversary of the 2020 Labor Day Fires and traveling to Washington's North Cascades National Park.

In August, Urness reported that Opal Creek was likely to have a limited reopening in 2026 while also detailing the struggles of victims of the Labor Day Fires five years later . Urness also talks about the beauty and challenge of visiting Washington's North Cascades .

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Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 18 years and

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