from "Finding Oregon's Best" presenting Gallery 55 ...
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Baker
County Oregon ©0817 Alfalfa - Keating to Quartz |
The
Oregon Trail ©0816 Oregon Trail Interpretive Center |
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Hole in the Wall on Powder River |
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| ©0804 Frozen Pond 203 - Baker City, Wallowa Mts | ©0813 Snake River Reflections- Farewell Bend St Pk |
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| Baker County Oregon ©0806 Peniplane of the Powder River |
Farewell
Bend State Park
©0805 Train-Snake River |
The
Oregon Trail ©0811 Wild Snake River in Hell's Canyon |
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| Baker County Oregon ©0807 Reflections on the Powder River |
Baker
County Oregon ©0803 Winter Frost on Teasel |
The
Oregon Trail ©0809 Homestead - Old Oregon Trail Hwy |
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| ©0812 Anthony Lake at Elkhorn Summit (Gunsight Mountain) |
Baker
County Oregon ©0820 Frosty Mullein |
The
Oregon Trail
©0810 Historic Farewell Bend |
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Baker
County Oregon ©0808 Sumpter Dredge (gold) |
Baker County Oregon ©0819 Tailings of the Sumpter Dredge | The Oregon Trail ©0821 Covered Wagons - Elkhorn Ridge |
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MAP of
Baker County |
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©0814 Burnt River Wallowa Whitman National Forest |
©0818
Baker City Court House (Clock Tower) |
©0815 Huge Gold Nuggets (US Bank) |
This Gallery
is from far
eastern Baker County. Pioneers entered Baker County
at Historic
Farewell Bend. It was the
last camp on their weary journey
across the Snake River Plains.
They must have been sad to leave
sights like the
Snake
River Reflections to head overland
to the Columbia. But some stayed
in this idyllic place, building
Homesteads
on the
Old Oregon Trail Highway and
a Train
track aside
the Snake River. A taste of
the Wild Snake
River encountered by settlers
can still be had by visiting nearby
Hell’s Canyon. Today the
Oregon Trail Interpretive
Center explains the plight of
the pioneer with it’s life size diaramas and
Covered Wagon
displays.
Any season
is the right season to visit Baker
County. In the summer, fish
Anthony Lake at 7150
feet...the Elkhorn Ridge
summit of the Blue
Mts. In winter, pass
over the North Fork of the
Burnt River,
mindful of Winter
Frost on Teasel and
Frosty Mullein nearby. Or seek
Reflections on
the Powder River...wild yet
soft & golden. This Powder
River is nature’s gift to Baker
County. It serves as a backdrop
to the nearby Wallowa Mountains in
Frozen Pond
203 as well as in
Peniplane (Meander)
of the Powder River.
Alfalfa Keating to
Quartz drinks from the Powder
River as does
Hole in the Wall...a
cluster of ranches in Sharp canyons.
In 1984 a landslide on the only
road into the
area trapped residents till
a new road could be built!! Difficult times
are not only for the pioneer days!
A stop at
Sumpter Dredge
is a must; one sees acre after acre
of gold
mining remnants...the
tailings
(rejected rubble)
from this huge
gold Dredge. Gold mining
was on everyone’s mind in the early
1900’s. t brought electricity
to this rural area (first to run the
dredge...later for the farms) AND gold nuggets
so big they still are on display in
the US bank in Baker City!
Baker City
is replete with everlasting
Clock towers.
They were
the rage at the turn of the
century and still dress the skyline.
Baker County residents think ahead!
Paul and Marilyn Peck
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Last Updated 2-11-2012