Wallowa River
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The Wallowa River is a tributary of the Grande Ronde River, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States. It drains a valley on the Columbia Plateau in the northwest corner of the state north of Wallowa Mountains. It rises in southern Wallow County, in the Wallowa Mountains in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. It flows generally northwest through the Wallow Valley, past the communities of Jospeh, Enterprise, and Wallowa. It receives the Miniam River from the south at the hamlet of Miniam, then flows north another 10 miles (16 km) to join the Grande Ronde along the Wallowa-Union county line approximatley 10 miles (16 km) NNE of Elgin.
The Wallowa Valley was home to Chief Joseph's band of the Nez Percé, from which they were expelled in 1877.