Ghost town of Eureka, Oregon (Baker County)
Name: Eureka (in Baker County) Class: A1 GPS: 44.8184797, -118.2046633 Directions: From Sumpter, Oregon, head north along Cracker Creek Road towards Bourne. Town site was about .6 miles south of...
Name: Eureka (in Baker County) Class: A1 GPS: 44.8184797, -118.2046633 Directions: From Sumpter, Oregon, head north along Cracker Creek Road towards Bourne. Town site was about .6 miles south of...
Name: Kirk (Kirkford) Class: A4 GPS:Latitude: 42.7473575, Longitude: -121.8294618 Directions: Head north on US-97/The Dalles-California Highway for 35.8 miles, or South from Bend Oregon for 98.3 miles. Turn right onto...
Name: Wendling Oregon Class: B3 GPS:Latitude: 44.1904044, Longitude: -122.7984142 Directions: From Portland, drive south on I-5. Take Highway Exit 216 to OR-228, turn left towards Brownsville. At eleven miles, just...
Cross Hollows Oregon – Double Ghost Town In some sources, Cross Hollows is listed as Shaniko. This is an understandable confusion, but based on my research I believe that it...
PT Boat Wreck – Dismal Nitch, Washington I know nothing about this boat, or why it’s here. The best guess I have is that it was brought here to be...
Ghost Town of Susanville Oregon The town of Susanville started as a gold mining camp in 1864. As far as I can tell, the name of the original camp is...
Galena Farm Outside of the old gold mining camp of Galena, is this small farm. Situated as it is along the John Day River, in the Late Spring, Summer, Early...
After seven trips in two and a half years, I can say that I’m finally both starting to get tired of, and enjoying “like a local” San Francisco’s Waterfront area....
There isn’t much history that I’m able to find about Hamilton, Oregon. Oregon Geographic Names states that the town was named for J.H. Hamilton, a pioneer stockman who first settled...
Oneonta Gorge Tunnel As one of the multitude of reconstruction projects on the Historic Columbia River Highway, was the reopening of the Oneonta Gorge Tunnel. Originally built in 1914, the...