Why didn't settlers on the Oregon Trail travel by bicycle?

The Oregon Trail as a settler route, was not a paved road but a bumpy trail. It, as a thoroughfare ended by about 1860's. read more

The Oregon Trail as a settler route, was not a paved road but a bumpy trail. It, as a thoroughfare ended by about 1860's. The bicycle as we know it (and they are sturdier now) was invented about the same time the Oregon Trail was supplanted by rail-- a far better mode of travel, even if biking it were possible, which it was not. read more

End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Oregon City. The plot thickens in Oregon City, historic site of the land-grant office where trail travelers signed their documents and received land assignments. Immerse yourself in trail lore, experience stories of settlers and dispel some trail myths at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. read more