Hells Canyon Scenic Byway
Baker City loop, OR · ~210-mile loop · a full day+
This ~210-mile All-American Road loops through Oregon’s far northeastern corner, encircling the glacier-cut Wallowa Mountains — the “Oregon Alps” — and reaching toward Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in North America at nearly 8,000 feet, carved by the Snake River even deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Good to know: The dramatic gorge overlooks (Hat Point, Hells Canyon) sit at the end of seasonal, partly-gravel Forest Service spurs, snow-closed much of the year — the paved loop gets you near the rim, not onto it.
The rim of North America’s deepest gorge.
It threads between the alpine Wallowas and the rim of the deepest river gorge on the continent.
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What to pull over for.
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