Historically, the tiny town of Sumpter has attracted tourists for its rich mining history, museum, mountain trails and Old West flair. Now, tourists have a new reason to visit the community of about ...

SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past.

SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling across Oregon’s backroads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you might find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting people who provide ...

The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

This morning we left Starkey and rode along the Grande Ronde River valley. It was a frigid but unbelievably gorgeous start to the day. I couldn’t resist joining the many other riders that stopped on a ...

Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, with a population of 187. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 97.30% of residents identify as white, 0.00% as Black or ...

Sumpter, before all else, is a gold town, the center of one of Oregon's richest strikes. Now it's a town of about 170 in the shadow of the Elkhorn Mountains 30 miles west of Baker City. Slouched along ...

An electric-powered gold-mining dredge is the main attraction at the Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area in Sumpter, Ore., on Feb. 20. The five-story-high machine, which ran from 1935 to 1954, ...

Examine whether contaminants in your water supply met two standards: the legal limits established by the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the typically stricter health guidelines. The data was collected ...