Situated on the east bank of the lower John Day River, this site marks the location where two branches of the Oregon trail converged to meet at the John Day River crossing. Looking up on the hillside, one can see white markers planted to mark the actual routes as they descend the hillside. Imagine trying to keep wagons and stock from plunging down the hillside, unchecked. Some emigrants who descended one branch of the Oregon Trail here are said to have remarked that the other branch must have…
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