• A young visitor talks with a ranger at the front gate of Fort Clatsop

    Lewis and Clark

    National Historical Park OR,WA

Traveling Trunk: Fort Clatsop Explorers

3rd-5th Grade
OR
6th-8th Grade

Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit). An educators guide contains hands-on activity ideas and descriptions of some of the essential articles carried by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 

Trunk Reservation Instructions

 
Explorer Trunk
Explorer Trunk
NPS Photo

Did You Know?

Lewis and Clark Journal collage

In 1958 Fort Clatsop National Memorial was authorized to commemorate the culmination and winter quarters of the Corps of Discovery.