People got to Oregon by using the road called The Oregon Trail.
The trail that settlers took to reach Portland, Oregon, from the Oregon Trail was the Barlow Road. It branched off from the main Oregon Trail near The Dalles and provided a more direct route to the Willamette Valley, including the future site of Portland.
The Oregon Trail led to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.The Oregon Trail was a dirt wagon road that went from St. Louis, Missouri, up the Mississippi along the banks of the the Mississippi River to the Missouri. It went to the North Platt. From there it went through South Pass on through Idaho to the Columbia River and from there, along the banks of the Columbia to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
It depends on your exact route, but the approximate driving distance by road from south to north is 340 miles.
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Wilderness Road
MANY NATIVE AMERICANS DIED ON THE TRAIL IT TOOK MONTHS TO GET TO OKLAHOMA AND THE road was rough
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One of the first trails into the West connected New England with land that is now Kentucky and Tennessee. A part of that trail, the National Road, is now known as US 40. The Oregon and the Mormon trail both went from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. That this point the two trails split. The Mormon trail continued southwest to the Great Salt Lake. The Oregon trail continued northeast and over the Blue mountains into Oregon. The Santa Fe trail went along the Missouri River and into Colorado, from there it traveled Southwest to what is now New Mexico.
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Trail Ridge Road was created in 1932.
There are several versions of how the road got its name. One version claims there was a massacre of first nations people at a creek near the top of the road. Another claims there were two native men hanging from a tree at the top of the road. No matter how the road got its name, it is offensive and needs to be changed. There is a petition on change .org right now to change the name back to an earlier name "Indian Market Road".