National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
History Museum · Baker City, Oregon
A Bureau of Land Management interpretive centre on Flagstaff Hill above Baker City, built where the Oregon Trail crossed the Powder River valley and sited so that the actual wagon ruts are visible from the windows. Some 300,000 people walked or rode this route west between the 1840s and the 1860s, and roughly one in ten died on the way. The centre uses life-size dioramas, living history and four miles of trail down to the ruts themselves, which are the reason to come rather than the exhibits.
22267 Baker-Copperfield Highway, Baker City, Oregon, 97814, United States
⚠ SEASONAL AND RECENTLY VARIABLE - the centre closed for a lengthy building renovation and its opening hours, season and which areas are accessible have changed more than once since. CHECK THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT PAGE BEFORE TRAVELLING; Baker City is hours from anywhere. Generally open daily in the warmer months with reduced or no winter opening, a modest admission, free parking and interagency passes accepted. Living history programmes run in season. The outdoor interpretive trails and the wagon ruts may be reachable when the building is not - ask at the desk.
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