Oregon Trail (mllg)

Heading east we took the Oregon Trail rather than Lewis and Clarks route. The Oregon Trail became the preferred route to the Oregon territories during the 1840’s even before John Fremonts expeditions to California. The rush to settle the West was on and the gold rushes in California, Montana and Nevada hastened things along.

We start at Lincoln City Oregon on the coast, the terminus of the Pacific water shed, move up the Columbia river, where Lewis and Clark traveled and then, rather than crossing into Idaho in the northern latitudes, travel southeast along the Oregon Idaho border to the snake river and the Oregon trail which was originally a fur traders route but became the emigrant route for the westward bound settlers wagons.