Re-enacted entirely within the center, this interpretive exhibit features historically accurate scenarios, leading you back in time to shop in a mercantile and gather ’round a wagon train campfire. The center’s guides lead you westward in a covered wagon, as a live cast of “pioneers” tells stories that bring the journey to life. Set out on your own Oregon Trail adventure in a simulated wagon train experience. You can still see the wagon-wheel ruts at the roadside pullouts on U.S. The descent was so steep that the Oregon Trail travelers tied their wagon wheels together, locking them to keep the wagons from hitting the back of the oxen on the way down.
What lay over the top, however, was even worse.
Big Hill |East of MontpelierĪs pioneers entered present-day Idaho, they immediately came up Big Hill, a tough ascent for tired oxen and pioneers who had just crossed the Wyoming desert.
Check out the list below to get your Oregon Trail adventures started. You can learn about the experiences of Oregon Trail travelers and the area’s native inhabitants at many points throughout the state, from historical markers to interpretive centers. Many Idaho locales reflect this time in history: the city of Pocatello is named for the Northwestern Shoshone chief the town of Fort Hall bears the name of an important trading post, and the town of Glenns Ferry developed around the site of a ferry launch that helped pioneers cross the Snake River. The route largely followed the Bear River Valley and the Snake River in southern Idaho before heading north through what is now the Boise area and into Oregon. The 2,000-mile trail stretched from Missouri to the Oregon Territory, passing 500 miles through Idaho, where travelers faced harsh desert landscapes and hazardous river crossings. During the peak of the westward migration, from about 1840 to 1869, more than 300,000 determined emigrants traveled the Oregon Trail to claim their own piece of the West.
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