National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Oregon


National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
Baker City, Baker County, Oregon

Overview

exterior view of interpretive center building
National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker City, Oregon. BLM photo

The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center offers living history demonstrations, interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, special events, and more than four miles of interpretive trails.

Using life-size displays, films and live theater presentations, the center tells the story of Oregon Trail pioneers, explorers, miners and settlers of the frontier west. The 500-acre site includes remnants of the historic Flagstaff Gold Mine, actual ruts carved by pioneer wagons, and magnificent vistas of the historic trail route.

Location

The center is on Highway 86, Exit 302 from Interstate 84, five miles east of Baker City, Oregon, 125 miles northwest of Boise, Idaho, and 95 miles southeast of Pendleton, Oregon.

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