A tour group from the Oregon California Trail Association annual convention waits on the side of the road after their bus breaks down north of Pendleton, Ore. on July 24, 2024. The Oregon Trail may ...

The End of the Oregon Trail center is planning a $10 million renovation to the historic site in Oregon City.

With the Oregon Trail being one of 20 national historic trails administered by the National Park Service and so many road trip options available to travelers why do we consider the Oregon Trail to be ...

The roughly 2,000-mile Oregon Trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon in the 1800s, including 500 miles in Idaho alone. By 1846, thousands of emigrants “drawn west by cheap land, patriotism or the ...

22267 Oregon Highway 86, Baker City, 541-523-1843, oregontrail.blm.gov. 9 am–6 pm daily during summer. $8, children 15 and under free. If you visit just one museum this summer to learn about the ...

GLENNS FERRY, Idaho — More than 500 miles of the historic Oregon Trail cuts through Southern Idaho. The most dangerous crossing along the route is a section of the Snake River in Glenns Ferry. Weather ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. (KTVZ) — Pioneers of all ages and backgrounds are invited to celebrate Friday's reopening of the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City. After a three-year ...

PENDLETON — Since the first major migration to Oregon in 1843, Oregon Trail ruts have become the growing fascination of thousands of historians, authors, teachers, and students across the nation. But ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...

Raoul Walsh’s (“White Heat”) 1930 epic, “The Big Trail,” chronicling the voyage across the Oregon Trail, features a familiar scene to fans of the Western genre. In it, the pioneer and his love ...