Hidden History on the Blue Mountains Trail
It's no surprise that a 530-mile route through Northeast Oregon would include some amazing landmarks along the way. The Blue Mountains Trail is almost entirely on existing trails and old gravel or 4x4 roads, and it traverses a long legacy of human use, extending from the Native Americans whose livelihoods and cultural traditions have been sustained from these lands since time immemorial. Western settlement altered these lands in a myriad of ways that we will see for future ge