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It's been about 160 years since the westward migration started up in force between Missouri and the Pacific states, but there are still plenty of signs left behind by the more than 400,000 people estimated to have made that journey. The wagon ruts of the trail can be seen all over the West with many of them accessible ? particularly in Idaho ? by car or on foot and marked with signs.
In the footsteps of the Oregon Trail pioneersAnyone here ever trekked the Oregon Trail? When I was growing up, one of the early video games my family had for our Apple IIe computer was "The Oregon Trail", which we played quite a bit. It was fun to do, including the part where you had to hunt for small game or (hopefully) a bear which would feed you a lot longer. But you'd have to be careful not to die of dysentery! This is the closest I've gotten to "spending time" in the Pacific Northwest! 🙂
I have walked about 200 miles of the Appalachian trail but have only been up to the Northwest once for six-weeks for work. Would probably be interesting though. The Northwest is not quite as spoiled as the American east is. You can still get a little of the frontier feeling in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest.
Yeah, I think it would be interesting to experience the parts of historical significance in that part of the country. Although before looking at this map of the Trail, I didn't realize it reached all the way into the Midwest.
I was at Ft Leavenworth a couple of years ago(no I was not at the DB) and there is a place on the banks of the Mississippi near there where the wagons used to go down and cross the river on a ferry. The banks are very worn down from all the wagons and there is a historical marker nearby that talks about it being the eastern terminus of several of the trails that headed west in the nineteenth century. Very neat.
