Panoramic View Of Landscape Surrounding The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. This View From the Top of Flagstaff Hill Shows the Present Day and Historic Roads That Lead To An Oregon Valley & Town..
“The map before me says the town of Baker is soon ahead. I see we’re in better agricultural land now. More rain here.“
Flagstaff Hill, 3 mi East of Baker, OR. This panorama opens with a Southwest view showing the modern & straight highway, Rt 12, on its way down to the green valley of Baker Oregon. Although the wheel marks ("ruts") of the Historic Oregon Trail can not actually be seen in this photo, maps (see link below) indicate that the "ruts" of this trail would have descended the hillside at the left (this side of the highway) and moved into the lower areas where now are seen several dirt roads. From there, the ox wagons would have proceeded West into the present day green areas. Here is where the pioneers, called "emegrants", camped for the night. As you continue scrolling around you will see (at North) the paved roads of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Just after the center of the panorama you see a large white building and a tiny white building. These two buildings mark where you can the paved road "zig-zags" up the hill to the Center. Just beyond the tiny building you can make out the faint trace, diagonal left to right, of the very straight and paved Rt 12 highway. The distant ridges, in the distance, way beyond that tiny building, mark where the ox wagons of the Historic Oregon Trail came through the mountains and over the distant ridges. Again you can not actually see the trail trace in this photo, but you can imagine what it would be like to come over this parched desert in the late August sun! You may combine what you see in this panorama with a study the topomap, which marks the trail, here: Detour in new browser frame for http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.808059&lon=-117.72902 (For more information about this Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, see my photos in Album III.)
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(Photo = 111 1195+7sc ...... ZMM Page = 274 ...... WayPt = 303w 3980ft. TopoZone = 3945ft)

Upload Date	:	Thu 25 Aug 2005 01:41:34 PM EDT
Capture Date	:	Thu 25 Aug 2005 01:41:31 PM EDT
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