The fold-out map inside the John C. Fremont book of maps is shown Dec. 1, 2016, at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretative Center in Baker City. Through a partnership between the Library of ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

Earlier this summer, EarthFix reporter Jes Burns took us on a walk in the Southern Oregon woods with Oregon Wild. The conservation group had been chosen by Google to use a backpack-mounted Trekker ...

A turnoff at the park’s north end leads to the visitors center and Ash Hollow Cave, a preserved hillside shelter occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years. Another turnoff at the south end ...

Grab your camera. You'll be passing through some of the most scenic places in the country on this incredible coast-to-coast Oregon Trail road trip. The post Your Guide to an Oregon Trail Road Trip ...

The sun is low over Wyoming's South Pass, pinkening the western sky that called thousands of pioneers over this 20-mile basin between high, grassy slopes. It's beautiful and historic, and the aroma of ...