The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center near Baker City is closed due to the federal government shutdown that started Wednesday, Oct. 1.
BAKER CITY, Ore. - One trip on the Oregon Trail wasn'tenough for Ezra Meeker. Heck, he didn't even stop at two journeys across the UnitesStates - by the time he died in 1928, Meeker had traveled the ...
A turnoff at the park’s north end leads to the visitors center and Ash Hollow Cave, a preserved hillside shelter occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years. Another turnoff at the south end ...
BURLEY • More than 2,000 miles of trail ruts, cut by thousands of emigrant wagons traveling west in the 19th century, still can be seen along the Old Oregon Trail. U.S. 30 generally follows the main ...
Ezra Meeker was 22 years old when he first passed through here. Meeker, along with his wife, Eliza Jane, and his infant son, Marion, followed the Old Oregon Trail west in 1852, in search of the ...
Swapping the Dutch lowlands for a year in the mountains of Colorado seemed exciting enough—but I wanted more. From previous visits to the U.S. I knew how vast and beautiful the backcountry of the West ...