Eighty-four miles via OR Highway 82 and county road 350; allow two hours for travel and another one to two hours for stops. Road may be snowy and icy in winter.

Beginning in the patchwork farm lands and hillside orchards of the broad Grande Ronde Valley, the first leg of the Byway follows numerous rivers through ever-higher valleys to the glacier-carved Wallowa Mountains. Each small town along the way offers a different character, a different combination of services.