A roadside sign beneath Flagstaff Hill points the way to this path, where you can walk in the actual ruts made during the mid-1800s by the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. The sage and other ...

As the Oregon Trail evolved, thousands of wagons wore ruts into the ground that acted as an ad-hoc road for the settlers who followed. But they didn’t follow a single solid path. Rather, wagon ...

Like most kids who grew up in this state, I spent hours playing The Oregon Trail, where most of the ... To tread on the actual wagon ruts, head 7 minutes southwest of Vale to the Keeney Pass ...

wagon trains descended Flagstaff Hill into the Grande Ronde Valley. Tourists can walk these ruts (though we didn’t take the time) while visiting the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive ...

The Oregon Trail was used by Americans who wanted to ... It was so well-traveled that to this day, you can see wagon ruts in ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. — When you hear the name Oregon Trail, you might think of the low-tech computer game and contemplate death by dysentery. But for Don Martin, hiking the 2,000-mile stretch ...

“When I started this out, it was just a hike,” he said, “But I kind of got into it,” Martin dressed in period clothing while pushing his covered wagon throughout the Oregon Trail. Courtesy ...

A roadside sign beneath Flagstaff Hill points the way to this path, where you can walk in the actual ruts made during the mid-1800s by the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. The sage and other ...

In this undated photo of an Oregon Trail reenactment ... nearly turning over in a wagon rut, hail and rain sweeping across the plains, furious winds, rain and high streams, a night with coal ...

A roadside sign beneath Flagstaff Hill points the way to this path, where you can walk in the actual ruts made during the mid-1800s by the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. The sage and other ...

In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd debunks myths about the Oregon Trail. So grab your food, ammunition, and spare wagon parts, and subscribe to Mental Floss on YouTube for new ...