A summer volunteer opportunity at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center has just been posted. What a great place to go find volunteer opportunities all over the country!! _
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We are working on an update to our ‘Comprehensive Interpretive Plan’, and planning what kind of programs, activities and educational publications we would like to offer in the coming years. The plan may include maintaining popular activities and programs as well as creating new ones.
An important part of this process is asking our visitors to let us know what they like. This simple survey should take less than five minutes. It will help us create the best possible programs, activities, exhibits and events for some of our favorite people – our guests! <GB> August 17, 1848 Riley Root 15 miles to camp, on Grand Round river. Eight miles across the head of the beautiful Grand Round valley, to a small branch, where emigrants might camp for the night, at the foot of the Blue mountains bordering the valley. From thence, we wound our way over the steep and rugged mountains, racking and straining our wagons, the distance of 7 miles farther, to the deep and lonely dell, where the Grand Round river is struggling and forcing its way through its narrow passage, down to the beautiful valley, Grand Round…Where we are encamped, the dell is narrow, and furnishes but little grass. It is remarkable for loudness of sound, when a gun is fired. August 18, 1848 Riley Root 10 ½ miles, over a very uneven district of volcanic rocks and mountain soils, to camp, on one of the highest peaks of the Blue mountains on our route. Country, to-day, becomes more densely timbered all around and along our road, overshadowing it in many places with yellow pine, fir and spruce hemlock. Have passed several deep cuts, to-day, so steep that teams were necessarily doubld to ascend out of them, and some of them were dangerous and difficult. Our camp is located on the side of a high ridge, in a small opening, nearly one-fourth of a mile above its base, where we are obligd to descend, to obtain water for cooking. From this high ridge, it is said, Mt. Hood can be seen, but at this time it is so smoky, that we can see but a little distance. Possibly this location is at the Blue Mountain Crossing at the summit of the Blue Mountains. It is not open at this time, but is a good site to visit in the summer months. It gives you a real feel for what these individuals had to go through for their dreams of the Land of Milk and Honey. <CDG>
ATTENTION BLOG FOLLOWERS!!!
Welcome to the new year of 2014! With a new year comes new changes for us. We have created a new blog site that we will be using in lieu of the other one located at trailtender.blogspot.com. We hope that our new site is more user friendly and visually appealing to our followers. With our new blog site we will be posting a blog WEEKLY. We will continue to keep everyone up to date on current and upcoming events out here at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. We will also be providing more in-depth educational information that will include pictures, slide shows and videos. Also, a new thing we are going to begin with our new blog site will be instructional "How-To's" and "DIY" (do it yourself) blog postings so that we can teach you how to make simple crafts at home. Our new blog site has a feature we use that will instantly post a link to our Facebook page every time we post a new blog. Also on our new site, we have direct links to our Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Pinterest, Trail Tender Site and YouTube. This will give you, as a user, easier access to everything that we have to offer. If you are not already following us on those other websites, here's your chance to easily look us up and do so. Thank you for your support and interest! We will continue to do our best to offer everything you are looking for. If you have any questions or comments, please take advantage of the "Contact Us" section on our new site and send us a direct email. ENJOY! <RH> |
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