Re:The Dalles... end of the Oregon Trail !! (Score 1)

The argument behind The Dalles as the end of the oregon trail is that it really is the end of the -oregon trail- the options at the dalles were either rafting the columbia river (not in any way a trail) or a toll road known as the Barlowe road (and therefore also not the oregon trail) around Mt. Hood. Therfore, since neither of the routes past The Dalles were the oregon trail, the trail officially stopped there, whether people kept going west from there or no.