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Columbia River Heritage Trail
A great recreational opportunity awaits you on Morrow County Columbia River Heritage Trail, a Community Millennium Trail.
This Great River of the West, sought by Lewis & Clark, has been a transportation trail for thousands of years. Heavy volcanic basalt flows caused a depression in the earth's crust. A thousand years worth of enormous floods from breaking Ice Dams in Montana pushed huge volumes of water and boulders traveling 60 mile an hour, 900-1000 feet deep across the depression. Boulder, sand & gravel deposits left by Ice Age Missoula Floods punctuate our landscape.
Native Americans lived, fished and traveled along the river's edge for more than 10,000 years. Ancient Petroglyphs rescued from submersion by backwaters of the John Day Dam can be found in Irrigon and Boardman. The Treaty of 1855 set aside a reservation of land for the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla peoples and established tribal rights to hunt, fish, collect plant foods on this land in the traditional ways.
Early European Americans traveling the Columbia River included: Captains Lewis & Clark & Corps of Discovery; The Astor Party including John Day; members of the American Fur Trading Company and Peter Skene Ogden of Hudson's Bay Company. The earliest Oregon Trail emigrants came this way after visiting Whitman mission for fresh livestock & supplies. In the 20th century, harnessing the Columbia with dams for flood control, irrigation and electrical power generation changed the appearance of the river and lifted the Columbia River people from dependence on natural resources. Irrigation and power generation expanded agricultural possibilities to feed America and the world.
The Columbia River Heritage Trail provides a number of secluded spots to catch the magnificent sunsets and cloud formations along the mighty Columbia River.
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