Salt Works

Salt, for the preservation of food, was essential to the survival of any long-term expedition in the nineteeth-century, including the Lewis and Clark Expedition. By the time the Corps reached the Pacific Coast, they were nearly out of salt. On ...

Blackbird Hill

On August 11, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped at the foot of a hill on the west side of the Missouri River near present day Macy, Nebraska. The two leaders and ten corpsmen climbed the hill to visit ...

Tower Falls

Tower Falls is a 132 foot waterfall located in the Northwest portion of Yellowstone National Park. Samuel Hauser, a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition that explored northwest Wyoming, named the waterfall in 1870. Hauser was not the first person to ...

Signal Mountain

Signal Mountain, located in Grand Teton National Park, reaches a height of 7,720 feet. It was on Signal Mountain in 1878 that renowned photographer William Henry Jackson took the earliest known photographs of the Teton Range.

In 1891, Robert Ray ...

Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument

On June 26, 1876, troopers of the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer engaged in fierce fighting with Indians of the Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes near the Little Big Horn River in Montana. ...

Ecola State Park

Named after the Chinook word for “whale,” Ecola State Park is located on the Pacific Coast of Oregon. During the winter of 1805-06 the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery camped at nearby Fort Clatsop. On January 6, 1806, William ...

Colter Bay

Named after the explorer John Colter who passed through the Jackson Lake area in 1807-08, Colter Bay is a small body of water located on the eastern side of the much larger Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Colter ...

Seventh Cavalry Memorial

The Seventh Cavalry Memorial is part of a larger historic site known as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The site as a whole pays homage to some of the most iconic figures in the history of the American West, ...

Grand River National Grasslands

Known for its scenic vistas and unique habitat, the Grand River National Grasslands are a distinctive part of the American landscape, and even the iconic explorers Lewis and Clark expressed awe when they beheld the Grasslands for the first time. ...

Fort Pierre and Farm Island

The Fort Pierre plain is located on the western side of the Missouri River in the city of Pierre, South Dakota. Native American tribes and fur traders appreciated the area’s level terrain that provided easy access to the Missouri River, ...