The Oregon National Historic Trail Interactive Passport Stamp Map!
Here's a fun, exciting way to find places where you can stamp your passports. Zoom in to find a location. Click on the yellow balloon of your choice to see the site name, address, access, image, and website. Note: Not all sites have images (yet). Please contact each site before you go to obtain current information on closures, changes in hours, and fees.
NPS Passport Cancellation Book
America's natural treasures - our national parks - are presented in one handy booklet with the Passport To Your National Parks program. This travelogue includes color-coded maps, pre-visit information, illustrations and photographs. It includes a list of every national park area in the United States. Spaces allow you to collect the series of commemorative Passport stamps issued each year.
There are extra pages in the back if you want to place all Oregon Trail stamps in one location. We suggest that you verify directions and hours of operation to be sure you can get Oregon National Historic Trail stamps.
To learn more about the passport program and to purchase a passport book, visit: Eparks Store
Imagine yourself an emigrant headed for Oregon: would promises of lush farmlands and a new beginning lure you to leave home and walk for weeks? More than 2,000 miles of trail ruts and traces can still be seen along the Oregon National Historic Trail in six states and serve as reminders of the sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs of early American settlers. This trail is administered by the National Trails Office Regions 6|7|8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pony Express National Historic Trail
Fort Kearny was the first Western military post built to protect emigrants on the trails west, and it later served as the headquarters for a number of small outposts along the emigrant trails. The fort was also a place where emigrants could resupply and a Pony Express station.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pony Express National Historic Trail
The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center is operated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and is a public-private partnership between the BLM, the National Historic Trails Center Foundation, and the City of Casper, Wyoming. It tells the stories of American Indians, early explorers, and the Oregon, Mormon, California, and Pony Express trails.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pony Express National Historic Trail
Jim Bridger established Fort Bridger in 1843 as a fur trading post. It was composed of two double-log houses about 40 feet long that were joined by a pen for horses. The fort soon became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails and expanded in size. I
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Homestead National Historical Park, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pony Express National Historic Trail
Homestead National Monument of America, managed by the National Park Service, remembers the Homestead Act of 1862 and the lives of those affected by it. The Act brought about significant changes to the United States, including opening up federal land to a diverse group of people.
Locations:Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon National Historic Trail
The southern part of Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument contains steep terrain and loose sandy and silty soils. Traveling through this area was difficult for emigrants on the Oregon Trail. Heavy wagons dug into the ground, leaving behind deep ruts that are still visible today.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Santa Fe National Historic Trail
The historic trails passed through this area in the field that is directly across from the National Frontier Trails Museum. Evidence of the trails can still be seen in the field in the form of swales, which marks the exact route used by emigrants as they traveled westward. The museum is currently temporarily located at 416 W. Maple Ave., Independence, MO 64050.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Historic Truman Courthouse is the official start of the Oregon Trail, where wagons were outfitted through much of the emigration era. The original building on the site went up in 1836 in the Colonial Revival style.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Santa Fe National Historic Trail
The Shawnee Mission was one of many missions established as a manual training school attended by boys and girls from Shawnee, Delaware, and other Indian nations from 1839 to 1862.
Locations:California National Historic Trail, Oregon National Historic Trail, Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Located just off of 3-Trails Crossing Memorial Highway in the heart of the historic 3-Trails Corridor, Trailside Center provides resources for trail and civil war aficionados, historians, and the Kansas City community. Few visitors realize that the communities that established in this area in the early 1830s were situated at the western edge of the United States until Kansas Territory was established in 1854.
