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 ...

Mammoth District

The Mammoth District of Yellowstone contains a number of constantly shifting and changing hot springs. The springs are formed by hot water rising through limestone, resulting in travertine deposits.

When John Colter, a member of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of ...

National Historic Landmark - Lolo Trail

The Lolo Trail across the Rocky Mountains between Idaho and Montana provided the setting for the most difficult travels of the Corps of Discovery. After camping and resting for two days at Traveler's Rest, Lewis and Clark began their journey ...

Hat Rock

On October 19, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition's first leg of their canoe voyage down the Columbia River on the western side of the Rocky Mountains took them “S.W. 14 miles to a rock... resembling a hat.” Such a ...

Arrow Rock, Missouri

The town of Arrow Rock took its name from a ninety feet high bluff overlooking the Missouri River. The site was a stop on a Native American trading trail, and Indians made weapons from the bluff’s flint for twelve thousand ...

Mount Moriah Cemetery

Home to the graves of famous Western figures such as Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and Sherriff Seth Bullock, Mount Moriah Cemetery is located in the nineteenth-century gold mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Prior to Mount Moriah’s establishment in ...

Lewis and Clark Pass

During the winter 1806, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made preparations for their return trip to Saint Louis. They decided to split the Corps of Discovery into two groups in order to find a more efficient route back to ...

Clark's Dismal Nitch

Clark’s Dismal Nitch is a cove in the lower Columbia River where Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery sought shelter from dangerous weather conditions for six days in November of 1805. By the time of their arrival at the lower ...

Nez Perce Long Camp

In the spring of 1806 the Lewis and Clark Expedition was homeward bound and traveling along the Clearwater River through the lands of the Nez Perce. However, a quick passage through the friendly Nez Perce lands was inadvertently extended four ...

Corn Palace

Where’s the Butter!

Located just off of Interstate 90 in Southeastern South Dakota, the City of Mitchell proudly boasts “The World’s Only Corn Palace.”

Built in 1921, the current Corn Palace is actually Mitchell’s third. The popularity of the original 1892 palace, ...