Ranging from covered-wagon-style accommodations to quaint cabins, this small resort in the Crystal River Valley is all about being chill and peaceful. The resort has a strict cap on day passes (it can ...

Kat Dooley and Pat Sager Pearce ran into a set of thunderstorms as they started out on their Oregon Trail trek in a covered ...

Audi's new all-terrain family wagon is making a glorious comeback in Australia. The new Audi A6 Allroad wagon has appeared ...

A wagon train of settlers is approaching Prairieville and rancher Allen is out to stop them by having some of his men join the train and poison the horses. When Jack Cameron arrives in Prairieville ...

We started from Litchfield, Ill., Oct. 10. Arrive here Nov. 8, had a very pleasant trip, this was our first time on the road ...

It was the first, and many teenagers of the 1970s and 80s would argue it was the best fast-food restaurant in Riverton. The Covered Wagon, home of the Wagon Master burger, chicken fingers, and their ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

There is a stretch of Highway 2 through Nebraska that we travel regularly and every single time I do, I think something is wrong with a tire or bearing on my pickup because it is so rough. Yet I know ...

Ever had the urge to ditch your car, swap your GPS for a compass, and travel like your ancestors did? Well, you can—without the dysentery, starvation, or general misery that made the Oregon Trail such ...

In the nineteenth century, pioneers piled their belongings into covered wagons and headed west. Some two hundred years later, the married couple behind Hitchman Homestead are packing their own covered ...

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No, not the computer game, guys. There aren’t any dysentery deaths shown in these photos. Instead, these old snapshots depict the gritty, raw travels of the folks who hit the Oregon Trail when it was ...