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Thereafter, migration on the Oregon Trail was an annual event, although the practice of traveling in giant convoys of wagons gave way to many smaller bands of one or two-dozen wagons. The trail was heavily traveled until 1884, when the Union Pacific constructed a railway along the route.
After 1846, there wasalso a choice at The Dalles between rafting down the Colum-bia River or taking the new Barlow Road across the Cascades.Today, modern tourists follow the route of the Oregon Trail through seven states in 2,170 miles: Missouri, Kansas, Ne-braska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.