Over the mile-long hood of a 1969 Dodge Polara, I watched various lifted 4x4 trucks spit sand as they paid their entrance fee at the ranger booth and powered onto the beach. "Am I going to get stuck?" ...

We’re towing a broken-down, smog-belching brickbat to the Oceano Dunes and parking it right next to that fancy-schmancy, $75,000, rarely used sand rail dune buggy that was supposed to be such an ...

There I was, staring up at a quarter-mile-high fold of sand that looked like it was the backdrop of a science fiction novel. It looked like CGI but it was real, and so far out in the desert that even ...

Dune buggies used to be a cultural phenomenon back in the 60s and 70s, and while they are not as popular as they used to be, they are just as cool. There is no denying that racing across the sand with ...

The state parks department bought this Funco dune buggy for $75,000 - $18,000 more than was originally quoted. John Pelonio Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2009 order for state departments to cut ...

Two people died and three were critically injured in a collision late Friday of two sand rails at Sand Lake, about seven miles north of Pacific City. The accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. in an area ...