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 |
Baker County Oregon ©0822 Hole in the Wall - 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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| ©0814 Burnt River Wallowa Whitman National Forest |
©0818 Baker City Court House (Clock Tower) |
©0815 Huge Gold Nuggets (US Bank) |
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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. It 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! |
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Paul and Marilyn Peck
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