Farewell Bend

Baker County · 4 miles east of Huntington in Farewell Bend State Park

HISTORIC OREGON TRAIL FAREWELL BEND The last camp on the weary journey across the Snake River plains. Here the Oregon Trail left the Snake River and wound overland to the Columbia. Here, camped Wilson Price Hunt, December 23, 1811; Capt. Bonneville, January 10, 1834; Nathaniel J. Wyeth, August 25, 1834; John C. Fremont, October 13, 1843.

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