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Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

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N.P. Dodge Memorial Park

Today N. P. Dodge Memorial Park might appear simply to be land set aside in Omaha, Nebraska for ball fields, water sports, and camping, but the area has a deeper history. About two months after their journey began, Lewis and ...

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Sacajawea State Park

The Sacajawea State Park is located on 284 acres at the convergence of Columbia and Snake Rivers in Pasco, Washington. The park is named after the Shoshone woman who acted as guide during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The area ...

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Lewis and Clark State Park

On the 4th of July of 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition stopped at an oxbow lake created by the Missouri River in present day Rushville, Missouri. The explorers dubbed it Gosling Lake due to the number of young waterfowl ...

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Grand Teton National Park

The Lewis and Clark expedition launched seventy years of scientific survey expeditions across the United States. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the location of Grand Teton National Park, was first explored in 1860. In 1853, Congress saw a need for a transcontinental ...

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Boyer Park

Boyer Park and Marina is located in Whitman County in Washington State located along the Snake River. The Snake River is a tributary of the Columbia River, which was inhabited by the Shoshone and Nez Perce tribes when Lewis and ...

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Stump Island

On June 10th and 11th, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition camped near Stump Island or Sheeco Island. Chicot is French for stump. Clark described the site in his journal as “the island covered in stumps.” The expedition planned to ...

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Lolo Hot Springs

The Lolo Hot Springs is one of the many places that the Lewis and Clark-led Corps of Discovery explored on its journey west. The Corps stopped in the area in September 1805 and June 1806 travelling to and from the ...

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Lewis and Clark State Park

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s historical journey across North America was the first time a group of explorers catalogued and studied the topography, animals, and nature of the newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Travelling primarily by a wooden keelboat through the ...

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Camp Wood

Before the Corps of Discovery embarked on their Westward expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made Camp Wood, Illinois their base camp to prepare for the long journey westward. In 1803, the captains took to “disciplining the men, and making ...

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