Beaverhead Rock State Park

Located northeast of Dillon, Montana, Beaverhead Rock is the notable site that inspired the name of Beaverhead Rock State Park and serves as the park’s primary attraction. The Shoshone Indians originally named the landmark Beaverhead Rock due to the resemblance ...

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 ...

Pompey's Pillar National Historic Monument

Pompey’s Pillar National Monument, under the management of the Bureau of Land Management, is located about 25 miles east of Billings, Montana, off of Interstate 94. The sandstone feature has a two-acre base and stands roughly 150 feet tall.

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Inspiration Point

Inspiration Point is a terrain feature located in Moose, Wyoming at Grand Teton National Park. The vantage point, at its 7,200 foot elevation, allows for a panoramic view of the Grand Tetons, Jenny Lake, and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berkeley Pit

The Berkeley Pit is a terminal sink, the remains of an Anaconda Company open pit copper mine that ceased operations in 1982. The pit began as a silver mine in 1880. Its Irish immigrant owner Marcus Daly soon discovered copper ...

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 ...

Spirit Mound

On August 24, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition came into view of a cast plain where a huge hill lay before them. The local Indians called the hill they were viewing “Spirit Mound.” The hill got its name through ...