Silvies Valley Ranch shares Eastern Oregon with a variety of great recreational and educational venues.
If you are planning a trip through the valley you will want to add some of these local sites to your travel and site seeing list:
ACTIVITIES:
- John Day Fossil Beds – world famous
- Strawberry Mountain hiking/snowmobiling – groomed trails from the ranch
- John Day River fishing and rafting – steelhead and salmon
- Malheur River fishing – only 45 minutes away
- Diamond Craters – Oregon’s youngest lava flow
- French Round Barn – historic horse breaking barn
- Kam Wa Chung Museum – historic herbal medicine
- Steens Mountain Wilderness Area (photography, hiking, fishing)
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- Myrtle Creek Wilderness Area hiking, camping and fishing
- Malheur National Wildlife Refuge – waterfowl
- Sumpter Gold Fields – dredge and railroad tours
- 9-hole golf courses: Seneca, Burns and John Day
- Shopping: John Day, Prairie City, Burns
- Dining in Burns: Meathook, Pine Room, Hilander
- Dining in John Day: Oxbow, Snaffle Bit, Out Post, Grubstake
- Gold Hill – pan for gold; you could strike it rich
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PLACES TO VISIT:
- Frenchglen
- Canyon City
- Buchannan
- Drewsy
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- Sumpter
- Mt. Vernon
- Old Camp Casino – Paiute reservation by Burns
- Burns District BLM Office – Wild Horse Viewing
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