Drive west of John Day on Highway 26 about 30 miles through Mount Vernon and Dayville and north 2 miles on Highway 19 puts you at the Visitors Center for the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. There are three units of the monument separated by many miles that the VC represents. Each unit is unique in it's topography, geology, and fossil remains, but the total is amazing. An hour spent at the center is almost overwhelming with the all the displays showing the varied flora and fuana that lived in the area over the eons. I recommend a visit to the area and to the visitor center.
Just 1/4 mile down the road, is the James Cant Ranch which has a lar
ge beautiful home built in 1917 by James Cant who was a Scottish sheep rancher. The home has about ten bedrooms because it was a gathering place for travelers in the early 1900s. It was also a social site as the Cants hosted "skip to my Lou" parties in the big white house, which was recently converted into a museum packed with various artifacts: Mother Cant’s recipe for macaroon cake, a beaver trap, a sack of oily sheep’s wool and other historic artifacts and pictures are displayed in part of the house.
ge beautiful home built in 1917 by James Cant who was a Scottish sheep rancher. The home has about ten bedrooms because it was a gathering place for travelers in the early 1900s. It was also a social site as the Cants hosted "skip to my Lou" parties in the big white house, which was recently converted into a museum packed with various artifacts: Mother Cant’s recipe for macaroon cake, a beaver trap, a sack of oily sheep’s wool and other historic artifacts and pictures are displayed in part of the house. An old haystacker hulks in the orchard of heirloom fruit trees, near
the wonderful barn that was designed specifically for sheep with many shearing and lambing stalls scattered about. In the hills and flatlands where catlike nimravids and terminator pigs once stalked their prey, you can wander the Cant Ranch and explore the rest of the John Day Basin in search of a glimpse of the past and a restful escape with picnic tables available.
the wonderful barn that was designed specifically for sheep with many shearing and lambing stalls scattered about. In the hills and flatlands where catlike nimravids and terminator pigs once stalked their prey, you can wander the Cant Ranch and explore the rest of the John Day Basin in search of a glimpse of the past and a restful escape with picnic tables available.
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