By Jacob on October 11, 2019

Run Wallowa County

Run Wallowa County was initially inspired by Rickey Gates’ project to run every street in San Francisco. I was intrigued by the idea of running every street and really getting to know a place, but running every street in the small town of Joseph, Oregon isn’t exactly on the same level of epic as San Francisco. Instead I started to think bigger, and I thought of how cool it would be to see every corner of Wallowa County that is accessible by public road.

I obtained a large printout map from the Oregon Department of Transportation that shows every public road and classifies them by type. Additionally, I found the 2018 Oregon Mileage Report which showed that there are 1,099.36 miles of total public road in Wallowa County. I intend to explore every mile of that report on foot as a long term project.

I was planning on tracking this project just for myself on the paper map I got from ODOT. I wanted to color in the roads as I completed sections and just use it as a personal progress chart. My friend, Nathan, however, made me realize that people might be interested in following along with my progress, so I create a Google Map linked below that I can update as I go and all of you can follow along! Join me on this journey as we do something epic!