"I especially like the idea that you have to earn it to come in and enjoy the lodge," Ellis said. "You just can't hop in your car and come out to the Minam River Lodge." The lodge has operated as ...

Minam River Lodge is in a mountain canyon surrounded by the 560-square-mile Eagle Cap Wilderness, about 25 miles east of La Grande. It's accessible by small aircraft or an 8 1/2-mile hike or ...

Minam River Lodge is a rare piece of private property within Oregon's 360,000-acre Eagle Cap Wilderness, which itself is located within the 2.3 million-acre Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

There are three ways to get to the new Minam River Lodge: private airstrip, horseback, or on your own two hiking-boot-clad feet. It’s 8 miles one-way to the secluded and off-the-grid retreat ...

to Minam River Lodge. Breakfast at the lodge followed by time on your own (I chose barn yoga). Afternoon included training for the trip. I snuck in a massage on the property before a family-style ...

The friendly pack of dogs gathered around the edge of Minam River Lodge’s pole barn has no idea what to make of square dancing, or of the 20 or so people doing it. The dogs, pets of lodge staff ...

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The Minam Lodge beacons weary travelers. Construction on the Minam Lodge buildings began in 1950 after the property was purchased for $1,500. The 47-acre parcel andbuildings sold in 1969 for $ ...

OUTDIGS – Mules moved the equipment, materials, remote sawmill and even a 400-pound refrigerator for the construction of Minam River Lodge in 1950. Helicopters will do the heavy lifting to ...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - When the Minam River Lodge was built in 1950, livestock hauled in most of the equipment. A sawmill was constructed on site to build the lodge and cabins, but mules provided ...

The friendly pack of dogs gathered around the edge of Minam River Lodge’s pole barn has no idea what to make of square dancing, or of the 20 or so people doing it. The dogs, pets of lodge staff ...

The friendly pack of dogs gathered around the edge of Minam River Lodge’s pole barn has no idea what to make of square dancing, or of the 20 or so This lodge in the Oregon wilderness is anything ...