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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wall Drug

Get a soda. Get a root beer. Turn the next corner. Just near to highway 16 & 14. Free ice water. Wall Drug.

On the northern edge of the South Dakota Badlands, in December 1931, in the midst of the ...

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 ...

Shadehill Reservoir

Located in Perkins County, South Dakota, in 1949 the Bureau of Reclamation dammed the Grand River to create Shadehill Reservoir. The reservoir is one of Western South Dakota’s few large lakes, providing recreational areas for camping, hiking, water sports and ...

Johnston Ridge Observatory

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” On May 18 1980, US Geological Survey scientist Dr. David Johnston radioed this when Mount St. Helens began to erupt. The eruption caused a lateral explosion, magma slides, and mudslides. The eruption killed Johnston and ...

Coldwater and Castle Lake

In May 1981, Mount St. Helens erupted on the coast of Northern Washington. The debris from the eruption blocked the Coldwater Creek and Toutle River in the North Fork Toutle River Valley creating two lakes Coldwater and South Fork Castle, ...

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Founded as a civic and historical institution, William McPherson, a lawyer and banker, established Bellefontaine Cemetery in 1849. McPherson and a group of preeminent citizens purchased 138 acres north of St. Louis, which included the Hempsted Farm and cemetery. During ...