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Providing unique enriched programs, diverse and authentic stories of history impacted by the Westward Migration ending at “The End of the Oregon Trail” influencing the development of the Oregon territory.
Here, interpretive signs tell the stories of the Trail, the Tumwater Chinook and Clackamas Indian people, and the settlement of the Willamette Valley. Follow the sidewalk to reach the garden that contains the designated end of the Oregon Trail, which is marked by two monuments.
For three years this was the end of the Oregon Trail as an overland route. It was here, just past The Dalles, that the wagons were loaded on rafts or bateaux and floated down to Fort Vancouver and Oregon City.
Here--at Abernethy Green near the mouth of the Clackamas River at the Willamette-- was the end of the Oregon Trail. In 1842, the nonnative population was tiny--only 300 to 500 in all of the Pacific Northwest--but contained an astounding variety of people.
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
The End of the Oregon Trail With the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in Utah in 1869, westward wagon trains decreased significantly as settlers chose the faster and more...
The end of the overland trails era began in 1866 with the formation of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Following the “wedding of the rails” in 1869, an emigrant could travel from Omaha to the Pacific Ocean in less than two weeks. However, wagon trains could still be seen on the Oregon Trail through the 1880s.
Immerse yourself in trail lore, experience stories of settlers and dispel some trail myths at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Here’s a fact you’ll learn there: Most of the travelers who took to the trail were not poor and out for a quick land grab; instead, they were established families who sold everything they had to ...