With shortcuts came risks, though. The infamous Donner-Reed party got a late start on their journey out west and was attempting to take one called the “Hastings Cutoff” when they got trapped in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAKER CITY — Coyote, the storyteller, has taken up residence at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City. And he’s using his voice to share a side of history sometimes ...

At the southern end of Scott Valley, a unique piece of Siskiyou County history has hit the market for $995,000. The 53.6-acre Lil Bit of Heaven Ranch was a change-out station on the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Natasha Eliya. Raoul Walsh’s (“White Heat”) 1930 epic, “The Big Trail,” chronicling the ...

Wedding-white thistle poppies speckled the ocean of grass that skirts western Nebraska’s Chimney Rock. With few sounds other than prairie bird songs, and a museum as the only sign of human habitation, ...

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 ...