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. Antonio Sierra / OPB ...

The 2,000-mile trail runs from Missouri and Kansas through Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho to Oregon, with routes branching off to California and other destinations in the Southwest.

In 1910 Meeker made another trip along the route to create amore precise map of the Oregon Trail. In 1916 he traveled the routein a Pathfinder automobile from Indianapolis to Puyallup, Wash.,and ...

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 Oregon–to ...

Roger Blair, of Pendleton, a member of the Oregon-California Trails Association, takes a photo of the Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail marker in southwest La Grande on Nov. 21, 2023.