Fort Clatsop

After a long journey from St. Louis to the shores of the Pacific, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark built Fort Clatsop two miles up the Netul River to provide shelter during the winter from December 1805 to March 1806. Constructed ...

Fort Stevens State Park

Fort Stevens State Park, named after Isaac Stevens, a former Washington Territory Governor and Civil War general, is part of Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks. Located on the Columbia River west of Astoria, Oregon, this site has ...

Camp Fortunate

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their company established Camp Fortunate on August 17, 1805, in what is now Beaverhead County, Montana. For one week the expedition utilized this campsite along the Beaverhead River to provide shelter while conducting trade with ...

Buffalo Mirage Access

Buffalo Mirage Fishing Access is an entry point into the Yellowstone River near present-day Park City, west of Billings, Montana. Currently, the site provides a location for fishing, boating, and picnicking. William Clark and his detachment camped at this area ...

Multnomah Falls

As Oregon’s most visited natural attraction, Multnomah Falls is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world, ranking a disputed 2nd tallest in the United States, with a recorded height of 620 feet.

The name “Multnomah” is derived from a tribe ...

Chief Timothy Park

Chief Timothy Park is a former U.S. State Park that is now privately owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and is situated on an island between the towns of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington, with the two cities ...

Black Hills National Forest

The Black Hills National Forest is an area steeped in rich cultural and historical importance. Archaeologists have found evidence of human activity in the area 10,000 years ago. It later served as a peaceful meeting place for warring tribes of ...

Lower Yellowstone Falls

The lower falls of the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone are 308 feet tall, twice as tall as Niagara Falls. The amount of water flowing over the falls varies from 63,500 gallons a second to 5,000 gallons a second depending on ...

Missouri Headwaters State Park: Three Forks

As the Corps of the Discovery continued up the Missouri River in July 1805, Sacajawea, the Lemhi Shoshone Indian who accompanied the expedition, began recognizing her people’s territory. Eager to meet the Shoshone, William Clark and four men separated from ...

Frontier Park

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson charged Captain Meriweather Lewis with the responsibility of leading an exploratory expedition across the newly acquired Louisiana Territory in search of the Northwest Passage, or river access to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis selected Captain William ...