Oregon Trail

[hutchman]

I have received a couple of books on the Oregon Trail and have started the process of research for a late summer early fall trip from where the trail enters Oregon up to the Echo area. I just wondered if any of you have driven this or explored any of the trial? I do know there are Oregon Trail Swailes that you can drive in around the Virtue Flat OHV Recreation area, which should be a hoot!

Would anyone be interested in making this trip sometime this fall......maybe in early October?

[RidgeRunner]

We have explored some of the Trail in Wyoming, most of it through Idaho and virtually all of it through Oregon, including the Barlow Trail around Mt. Hood and the southern route, the Applegate Trail through Nevada.

Last Friday, on the way to the Owyhee Canyonland trip, I followed a section I had been wanting to cover from just west of Huntington, across I-84 and up to Birch Creek interpretive site and along the trail there toward Vale. I did not go all the way down to Vail. (I was following the trail backwards)

There is another interpretive site about three miles west of Vale on Hwy 26, turn right on 5th Ave and there is the Alkali Flat, Oregon Trail Marker. You can continue north from there on a very rough road and will eventually come the the Birch Creek site above.

In the summer you can go to an area off I-84 in the Blues where they have volunteers in period costume, a wagon camp set up and you can walk along part of the original trail. It's very cool.

The books will help you figure out where to go.

Mick