The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way — not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past. Here’s a golden ...
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Situated in Oregon's Blue Mountains is a once-thriving mining town with a restored dredge and historic railroad
The historic gold mining settlement of Sumpter in Oregon's Baker County offers a glimpse into the past. It's a popular stop on a scenic Oregon road trip, combining both heritage and nature in the ...
SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past.
Historically, the tiny town of Sumpter has attracted tourists for its rich mining history, museum, mountain trails and Old West flair. Now, tourists have a new reason to visit the community of about ...
Sumpter, before all else, is a gold town, the center of one of Oregon's richest strikes. Now it's a town of about 170 in the shadow of the Elkhorn Mountains 30 miles west of Baker City. Slouched along ...
The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...
If you’re looking for a storybook Christmas experience, you can’t get much closer than the Sumpter Valley Railroad’s Christmas train. Oregon Field Guide reporter Jule Gilfillan gets a hug from a very ...
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