About
Baker’s Claim to Fame on Film
This small interpretive site commemorates one of the areas used during the 1968 filming of the musical movie Paint Your Wagon. The photogenic area was chosen for the mixture of open pine forests and meadows that give way to the rugged Wallowa Mountains in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in the background. Scenes of the movie were shot here along East Eagle Creek as part of the “No Name City’ scenes, in Forshey Meadows in the southern Wallowa Mountains, and up at Anthony Lakes (site of the Starbottle Saloon).
Details
Getting There
From Richland head north for 3 miles on the New Bridge Road to Newbridge; Turn left on the Sparta Road (dirt surface) and travel 13 miles to the East Eagle Creek Road; (turns into Forest Road 70); On the East Eagle/Forest Road 70 travel north about 6 miles to Forest Road 7020; Continue on Forest Road 7020 to Forest Road 77 for 4.6 miles and cross Eagle Creek; On Forest Road 77 travel for a short 0.1 miles and take the East Eagle Creek Road (Forest Road 7745) for 3.7 miles to the site.
Seasons
The site can be may be inaccessible during winter.
Cost of Admission
No fees required at this site
other considerations
There are many sections of private land along East Eagle Creek between the Forest Road 77 and the interpretive site.