Immigrants called Barlow Road the "worst stretch of the Oregon Trail," but parts of that old toll road are now prime territory for hikers who want to explore the southern edge of Mount Hood. On ...

The Barlow Road is a branch of the Oregon Trail. Opened in 1846 by Sam Barlow and Philip Foster after authorization by Oregon's provisional Legislature, it stretched 100 miles from Tygh Valley to ...

The Barlow Road was a route named for pioneer Sam Barlow in the 1840s. The infamous Laurel Hill was one of the trail's most dangerous sections. To stream KGW on your phone, you need the KGW app.

To understand the meaning of Barlow Road, you have to put yourself in the shoes of a settler heading west on the Oregon Trail ...

Highway 26 is lined with references to Barlow Road throughout Clackamas County—everything from a mobile home park to a veterinary clinic and even an old-timey log cabin saloon bear its name.

Get stop-by-stop directions for a driving tour of Mount Hood, Oregon from National Geographic's Ultimate Road Trips. The views here are just as spectacular today as they were when the first ...

It was late August 1851, a miserably wet and muddy day on the Barlow road near the summit of Laurel Hill when Oregon pioneer Neill Johnson made a decision that would affect not just his family’s ...