The town of Cornucopia, Oregon, was named after a gold mine that produced millions in treasure before it closed.

Cornucopia Lodge still offers the endless treasure you'll find when you step out the door of your cabin and walk right into Eagle Cap Wilderness.

At 360,000 acres, Eagle Cap is Oregon's largest wilderness and offers endless opportunity for horseback riding, hiking, fishing, photography, or viewing wildlife.

A lake hike, a lodge, a ghost town: Adventures in Cornucopia, Oregon

By Abby Haight 

Oregon's unusually late snowfall has been a bane to backpackers, who have found normally open trails still buried in snow and have had to delay, again and again, favorite high-elevation trips.

But if the snowfall behaved more predictably, we wouldn't have sunned on warm granite steps at Pine Lakes in the Wallowa Mountains wilderness, nor met Bill and Peggy Barnett, with their open-arms hospitality and to-die-for bread pudding.

On the advice of a furnace installer -- he swore the Pine Lakes were the prettiest view in the Wallowas and the Cornucopia Lodge served the best dinner -- we drove 6 1/2 hours from Portland to the lodge, just outside Halfway near the Oregon-Idaho border.

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