Rocky terrain forced Oregon and California Trail travelers into a narrow corridor around this bluff, creating congestion and repeated wagon traffic. A nearby interstate rest area provides a legal, practical place to interpret the landmark without directing visitors onto private land.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/places/000/ofallons-bluff-at-sutherland-rest-area.htm