June: Mapping Your JourneyWhere will your map take you? Plan a park visit, explore migration routes (both human and fauna), follow a new trail or parkway, or map your own personal journey in parks.Every moment is part of someone’s journey and every park is full of their stories. Whether it’s a creature in nature, a person in history, or a visitor out on an adventure, let’s help people map those journeys found in national parks or in communities through the work of our NPS programs and partners.
Featured NPS.gov/lecl WebpagesMaps The trail’s Maps page is the second most popular page on our site (behind the home page). This page features the visitor interactive map, story maps, trail atlas and more.Navigation This page includes a compilation of articles related to navigation on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. -Honoring Tribal Legacies: There are several teachings that work with the mapping theme for the month. Lewis and Clark’s Map A unit of :Tribal Oral Traditions and Languages in the Plains Region of the Lewis and Clark Trail,” authored by curriculum designer Shane Doyle. A Thousand Celilos: Tribal Place Names along the Lewis and Clark Trail Designed for use in the fourth grade, “A Thousand Celilos: Tribal Place Names along the Lewis and Clark Trail,” authored by curriculum designer Shana Brown (Yakama). This is designed as a four-week reading unit of study. Tribal Legacies of Pathfinding Designed for use in post-secondary education, “Tribal Legacies of Pathfinding,” authored by curriculum designer Carmelita Lamb (Hispanic/Lipan Band of Apache). She writes: “Without the contributions of vital resources from the tribes they encountered along the journey, the explorers would have faced extreme hardship and possible failure in their mission to reach the Pacific Ocean.” We are always looking to increase the quality of the information on the official Trail webpage. If you have trails or other recreational opportunities at your site you would like featured, email a short write up and high quality photo to ashley_danielson@nps.gov Looking for something ready-made to share?On your next long drive, be sure to see if there are sites along your route. Many sites are accessible by auto. #LewisandClarkTrail Learn about the history of the auto tour route: https://www.nps.gov/lecl/learn/historyculture/auto-tour-route.htmNeed a travel map for your #LewisandClark Trail trip? Let the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Experience website assist you in planning. https://lewisandclark.travel/ What do you notice about the world around you? Do you document your observations? During the course of their expedition, Lewis and Clark knew they were nearing the Pacific Ocean through drawing conclusions from their observations. Read all about it: https://www.nps.gov/articles/clark-knew-they-were-near-pacific.htm William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) was considered a master cartographer. “Every few days, Clark would take the notes from all of his observations and measurements and compare them to Lewis’ notes to draw maps of the river and landmarks to scale. The accuracy of his maps is widely admired …” Keep reading: https://www.nps.gov/articles/william_clark_cartographer.htm Today, we often take the tools we use for navigation for granted. When #LewisandClark were making maps along the #LewisandClarkTrail, they used a large suite of instruments, including a circumferentor, octant, paper dial compass, and many more. Learn all it: https://www.nps.gov/lecl/learn/historyculture/navigation.htm Social Media hashtags: #MapYourJourney, #FindYourPark and #EncuentraTuParqueLewis and Clark Events That Happened This Month(ready made posts to share)On June 2, 1805, the expedition arrived at the confluence of the Marias and Missouri rivers. The following day Lewis wrote, “This morning early we passed over and formed a camp on the point formed by the junction of the two large rivers. here in the course of the day I continued my observations […]. An interesting question was now to be determined; which of these rivers was the Missouri”. #LewisandClarkTrail How did they decide? https://www.nps.gov/places/decision-point.htm Meriwether Lewis took a small party of men with him and they explored upstream, ultimately finding the Great Falls of the Missouri. On June 14, 1805, Lewis assigned a variety of duties to the men and he took off on his own, with his gun and espontoon in hand. #LewisandClarkTrail What happened next? https://www.nps.gov/articles/lewis-chased-by-grizzly.htm The Missouri River meets the Kansas (Kaw) River between today’s Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. It’s believed the confluence in 1804 was only about 0.25 miles north of where it is today. The Expedition camped at a wooded point where the Kansas enters the Missouri from June 26-28, 1804. #LewisandClarkTrail Learn more: https://www.nps.gov/articles/kaw-point-park.htm After leaving the area of the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, the Corps moved northwest. It was on July 2, 1804 when the men first encountered the vacated Kansa or Kaw village near today’s Leavenworth, Kansas. #LewisandClarkTrail More: https://www.nps.gov/articles/lewis-and-clark-in-kansas.htm On June 27, 1806, the expedition proceeded east on the rugged Lolo Trail. Clark wrote, “we halted by the request of the Guides a fiew minits on an ellevated point and Smoked a pipe on this eminance the nativs have raised a conic mound of Stons of 6 or 8 feet high and erected a pine pole of 15 feet long. from hence they informed us that when passing over with their families some of the men were usually Sent on foot by the fishery at the enterance of Colt Creek in order to take fish and again meet the party at the quawmash glade on the head of Kooskoske river. from this place we had an extencive view of these Stupendeous Mountains principally Covered with Snow like that on which we Stood; we were entirely Serounded by those mountains from which to one unacquainted with them it would have Seemed impossible ever to have escaped […] after haveing Smoked the pipe and Contemplating this Scene Sufficient to have dampened the Spirits of any except Such hardy travellers as we have become, we continued our march.” #LewisandClarkTrail Read more: https://www.nps.gov/places/smoking-place.htm |
Last updated: January 28, 2020