Life on the Oregon Trail was both incredibly boring and extremely dangerous. Pioneers had to exercise extreme caution and a ...

The Oregon Trail runs 2,000 miles across public and private land from Independence, Mo., to Oregon City, just south of Portland, and is marked by plaques with stirring passages from pioneer journals.

The 2,000-mile journey, generally from Independence, Mo., to Oregon City, took as long as six months to complete and navigated across rivers and mountain passes the likes of which modern-day ...

Those of us in the so-called Oregon Trail Generation (born late 1970s to early 1980s) may remember well from our elementary-school computers the educational game that simulated a monthslong trek ...

Yes, Independence is the literal starting point of the Oregon Trail and for that, it’s the place the route—and your road trip—will inevitably kick-off, however, this Missouri city deserves ...

According to the Oregon-California Trails Association in Independence, Mo., as many as 65,000 people died during the 25-year span of the trail.