Ore Wagon Museum
Depending on your age, you may be familiar with the 20-mule team made famous by Borax television ads of days gone by – but are you familiar with an 18-horse hitch? Each year, the original 1880's ore wagons previously used to transport gold and silver ore are taken out of the Ore Wagon Museum in Ketchum, Idaho and driven with a team of eighteen horses in the Wagon Days Parade. more info
The original 1880's ore wagons used in the Wood River Valley are stored in the Ore Wagon Museum located in Ketchum, Idaho. Maintenance on the ore wagons is a continuing task, in an effort to keep these hundred plus year old transportation vehicles in shape to be driven once a year during the Wagon Days Parade.
Going through a series of fortunes, Ketchum experienced a mining boom in the 1880's. Ketchum became one of the richest mining districts in the Northwest. At the Ore Wagon Museum, visitors can see the high, narrow Lewis Ore Wagons that were used to haul the millions of dollars' worth of silver and lead ore from the surrounding mines to the smelters in the Wood River Valley. To see the Ore Wagons in action, travel to Ketchum to see the Wagon Days Parade, generally held on Labor Day each year.
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