Length: 286 miles / 457.6 km
Driving Directions
From Baker City, go west on SR 7 past Austin, then west on US 26 to Mitchell. Go north on SR 207 to Kimberly, northwest on SR 19 to Fossil, then west on SR 218 to Antelope. From Antelope, go north on US 97 to I-84 and the Columbia River. The one-way trip is about 290 miles and takes all day.
Hiking, history and heritage, that’s the theme of the Oregon Trial Interpretive Center just East of Baker City.
The center, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, is about 26,000 square feet nested on top of Flagstaff Hill. The trip to the top of the hill is a winding affair, but once you make the mile-long journey, it is well worth it.
The fact of the matter is there just aren’t that many woolen mills – or any other type of textile mills – left in the United States.
With cheaper labor abroad, more and more companies send the work off-shore, where they can hire several workers, to one American worker.
However, there are still a few places left in the U.S. where you can see production of wool being woven into blankets, such as Pendleton Woolen Mills.
Just off I-84 in view of Oregon's picturesque Blue Mountain, is the Red Lion Hotel Pendleton. Pendleton has much to offer visitors including the reputation as an antique hunters paradise, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Pendleton Underground Tours and the Wildhorse Casino and Golf Course.
This tree sits on property settled in 1868 by W.S. Frazier, the founder of Milton, Oregon. The Frazier family carried the hickory nuts along the Oregon Trail from their home in Texas. The nuts were planted shortly after their arrival.
It is located on the grounds of the Frazier Farmstead Museum, 1403 Chestnut Street, Milton - Freewater, Oregon.
Approximate Height: 60'
Circumference: 6' 6"
Age: 125 years
Dedicated: April 4, 1998
47500 Anthony Lake Highway | North Powder, OR | 541.856.3277
Terrain: 900 vertical drop
Lifts: one triple chairlift, one handletow
Nordic: 13 kilometers of groomed trails
Drive the highest road in Oregon to viewpoints of mile-high cliffs and canyons in the desert.
About the Hike: Three short paths lead to viewpoints of Kiger Gorge, the East Rim, and Steens Summit. A longer trail descends to Wildhorse Lake, in a treeless bowl of wildflowers.
Difficulty: Altogether, the three viewpoint trails are an easy, 1-mile hike with 250 feet of elevation gain. The trip to Wildhorse Lake is a moderate 2.4-mile hike with 1100 feet of elevation loss.
It’s one thing to read about history in a book, or see a movie, but it’s quite another to see, feel and walk through the history of a people from their unfiltered point of view.
That’s exactly what you get when you visit the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute outside of Pendleton on Interstate 84.
“The exhibit content was developed by experts from the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes,” said John Chess, development officer from the institute. “No outside experts or scholars were used to make sure this was the unfiltered history that was presented.”
One of the original 250 Norway maple trees planted by volunteers along Spruce Street and "S" Avenue in 1923 to commemorate the end of the First World War and to appreciate the returning veterans. The beautiful tree-lined parkway, known as Victory Way, stretches from downtown to Riverside Park. The planting culminated in a large ceremony including singing, a luncheon, and speeches.
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