Plan your Oregon Trail road trip with this guide to National Park sites, historic wagon ruts, and outdoor adventures across ...

Survival on the Oregon Trail depended on durable, long-lasting food supplies. These staples reveal how pioneers adapted their ...

“I don’t know about you,” said the cowboy in his booming Wyoming voice. “But when I follow these old trails, I can just see the wagons coming up over the hill.” My wife and I were chatting with this ...

The roughly 2,000-mile Oregon Trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon in the 1800s, including 500 miles in Idaho alone. By 1846, thousands of emigrants “drawn west by cheap land, patriotism or the ...

SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...