You are right about the beauty. We just stayed 3 nights at the Copperfield Campground at Oxbow in Hells Canyon. We are ready to go back. We went out and looked over Halfway one day as well as riding down the Snake River to Hells Canyon Dam. The day we left we rode up to Brownlee Dam then back tracked to go out thru Halfway & Richland to Baker City. Had a great hamburger at a little hole in wall cafe in Richland.
People are so friendlly in those settings, we really enjoy that kind of vacation.
Not that people are not up to date but we were impressed with the guy cutting hay with a horse drawn mower.
If you go out of Halfway about 8 miles and take a left on a USFS rode you can have as may twisties as you like and end up in Joseph, Or and go on from there to so great riding.
That's one of many reasons we love living in the Great Northwest!!!