Mount Hood - Oregon

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Mount Hood - Oregon

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Also Featuring: Mirror Lake, Barlow Road, Apple Valley Country Store which has DELICIOUS Huckleberry Milkshakes!....and beautiful Oregon wildflowers. The song is "You Are My Strength" by Hillsong featuring Reuben Morgan. Apple Valley Country Store - Hood River's most delicious destination. Apple Valley offers homemade pies, apple dumplings, old fashioned jams, and huckleberry milkshakes made right in their kitchen. Using fruit grown in Oregon and the Hood River Valley, their creations have been featured in Sunset Magazine, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and others. A visit to the scenic Columbia River Gorge is not complete without stopping for a warm piece of pie and ice cream at Apple Valley. Apple Valley Country Store is located at: 2363 Tucker Road Hood River, OR 97031 541-386-7697 http://www.AppleValleyStore.com In 1845, 53 year old Samuel K. Barlow of Illinois arrived at The Dalles. He became very disgruntled at the high tolls being charged to transport emigrants down the Columbia. He was also very concerned about the extreme hazards of the trip. Barlow scouted out a wagon road around the south side of Mt. Hood, which he began operating as a toll road in 1846. It was a very rough road, with trees and rocks making the journey even more difficult. The Barlow Road was the last overland segment of the Oregon Trail before reaching the Willamette Valley. This road provided an alternative to the dangerous and expensive route that used rafts to transport wagons down the Columbia River. But it was not free. The Barlow Road was the first place on the 2,100 mile Oregon Trail where tolls were charged. When the road opened in 1846, tolls were $5.00 per wagon and 10 cents for every head of livestock. Five dollars was about one week's wages, but consider the alternative -- floating down the Columbia River in boats or rafts cost nearly $50.00! By 1863, tolls had changed to $2.50 per wagon and team, 75 cents for horse and rider, and 10 cents for other livestock. The Barlow Road operated under many owners as a toll road from 1846 to 1919. There were no tolls after 1919 when the estate of the final owner deeded the road to the State of Oregon. The Mount Hood National Forest maintains 40 miles of Barlow Road corridor. Much of the road on the Forest is still in use today for recreation activities. About 30 miles remain "intact," but not always in a form you would expect. The Barlow Road underwent an evolution of travel modes--from oxen-pulled wagon to Model A Fords. In the Zigzag Valley, much of the original route is beneath U.S. Highway 26. Motorized travel meant mechanized re-routing and maintenance. The new motorized routes (including Mount Hood Loop Highway of 1924) left many isolated pieces of "pristine wagon ruts." Rut traces are still visible today. The ruts are actually a swale--a five to six foot wide trench worn out by the wagon and the stock that pulled them. Near "Pioneer Woman's Grave," they get four to five feet deep. Fine traces exist within 200 feet of paved parking at Pioneer Woman's Grave and Barlow Pass. The one mile hiking trail from Barlow Pass to Pioneer Woman's Grave has some of the best rut traces to be seen; they are marked with rustic "Original Wagon Route" signs. There are also fine traces near Devil's Half Acre. Without formal maps, ruts on Laurel Hill are for the true "rut nuts" to search out. Wagons were lowered at Laurel Hill; a stump with rope burn was near the top of chute number two, but the marks have disintegrated through time. http://www.nps.gov/archive/whmi/educate/ortrtg/1or13.htm

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