Cutoff Fever

The board's title is also the title of a history of the Elliott train that Leah Collins Menefee and Lowell Tiller ran in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in six parts from December 1976. The board's third train began with a road survey. In July 1852 William Macy and John Diamond worked up the upper Willamette, climbed the mountain they named Diamond Peak and found a crossing now called Emigrant Pass, south of today's Willamette Pass. Their party of road viewers rode east, and in the Harney Valley fight that turned them back, Macy, Diamond and one Clark were wounded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Weiser — 22 mi
  Every June the fiddlers come to a farm town on the Snake, and the campground plays all night.

More markers nearby

• Snake River — 15 mi
• Salmon Festival — 15 mi
• Francois Payette — 16 mi
• South Alternate Route of the Oregon Trail — 19 mi