This year, Oregon is marking the 175th anniversary of the trail, commemorating the first large, organized wagon train that left in late May of 1843 from near Independence, Mo.

Remnants of wagon ruts remain carved along the 2,170-mile trail from Missouri to Oregon. The old wagon route in Oregon stretches from Farewell Bend to Oregon City, and you can see traces of it at ...

This year, Oregon is marking the 175th anniversary of the trail, commemorating the first large, organized wagon train that left in late May of 1843 from near Independence, Mo.

A cold wind from the Blue Mountains carries the scent of sagebrush as it whips your face. Each step stirs dust on the dry path in this high desert plateau in eastern Oregon, where hundreds of thous… ...

A cold wind from the Blue Mountains carries the scent of sagebrush as it whips your face. Each step stirs dust on the dry path in this high desert plateau in eastern Oregon, where hundreds of thous… ...

This year, Oregon is marking the 175th anniversary of the trail, commemorating the first large, organized wagon train that left in late May of 1843 from near Independence, Mo.

NYSSA, Ore. — Wagons carved such deep ruts in some dusty hills on the Oregon Trail in the mid-19th century that nothing will grow there yet. The parallel path of the wheels stretch for miles in ...

Oregon Trail wagon ruts stretch west along Wyoming 28 in Sublette County. File, Star-Tribune Ruts cut into the rock by thousands of wagons traveling west on the Oregon Trail remain in Guernsey ...

Heading east this summer on Interstate 84, past Pendleton? If your timing is right, it's worth a detour to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Park at Blue Mountain Crossing. Re-enactors are waiting to ...

Later on, in college, I studied archaeology and was awestruck to learn that not only do the Oregon Trail’s wagon ruts still exist on the ground, ... Wyoming’s treeless landscape, ...

“The Oregon Trail” is an uneven work, despite the rigors and triumph of the core story. Driving a wagon nearly 2,000 miles along ruts, farm roads, and major highways is a major accomplishment.

A cold wind from the Blue Mountains carries the scent of sagebrush as it whips your face.