The Old Wagon "Ruts", Of The Emigrants On “The Oregon Trail” Can Almost Be Discerned Where They Are Crossed By Modern Highway, Oregon Route 86, ~5 mi East of Baker OR.
….The lined-up marker posts, barely visible in the sage to left of center in this photograph, mark the Historical Oregon Trail. You will learn at the neighboring Oregon Trail Center where to look for the wheel groves left by Ox Drawn Covered Wagons 150 years ago.
….The visitor at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, high on Flag Staff Hill can look East-South-East, to see where the wagons came over the distant mountain ridge and creaked their way through the endless sea of dry dusty sage, to pass on to sources of water and overnight camping, in the valley to the West.
….While on that hill, I got weak knees just thinking what it must have been like walking with the oxen and other wagons, along that endless dry dusty track through this dry desolate land. ... No towns. No roads. No sources of food or fodder. ... Day after day, month after month. ... No one to help, if disease befell or accident struck.
... The overnight camp grounds were located just North of the present day Baker City, OR. (Photo = 112-1205_IMG.JPG)
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