Featured NPS.gov/lecl WebpagesJourney on the Road to the Buffalo: Preserving the Unique History of Alice Creek Historic District Story MapOfficially Designated Water Trail Story Map The Lewis and Clark Trail from Space Story Map 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 
Ready-Made PostsGreat Outdoors month post. Visual: Download image and include image description (Alt-text) at end of post or embedded. Date to post: any time in June Image description (alt-text): June 2021. Great Outdoors Month. Photos of a kayaker near a waterfall, two cyclists in mountain pass, Lewis and Clark Trail Highway sign, earthen mounds with walkway, and canoe on a forested river. National Park Service Logo. Lewis and Clark Trail logo.
Adapt post below: Did you know you can experience history and culture while paddling, biking, hiking, and road tripping? During #GreatOutdoorsMonth sites along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail are highlighting ways you can connect to history in the outdoors. [Optional: Here you can: insert outdoor experience at your site.] Have you been on a trip along the Trail? Share a picture and tell us what you learned. What trip is next on your list? #LewisandClarkTrail #GreatOutdoorsMonth #Recreate Responsibly @lewisandclarknht Pictured left to right: Kayaking the Lower Columbia River Water Trail. Biking near Missoula, MT (photo Saraa Snow.) Lewis and Clark Auto Tour Route sign near Knife River Indian Villages. Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois. Canoeing along the Ohio River Recreation Trail. Additional posts to share:The Lewis and Clark Trail is for everyone. Find yourself along the Trail. #LewisandClarkTrailStart here: https://www.nps.gov/lecl/planyourvisit/maps.htm Want to recreate on #LewisandClarkTrail? Let the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Experience website assist you in planning. https://lewisandclark.travel/ What’s your favorite trail? #FindYourTrail #LewisandClarkTrail Why do you love the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail? Share your story with us! #FindYourTrail #LewisandClarkTrail We all find our own personal connections to these amazing places in our own ways—in 2020, we’re inviting you to find your own connection, find YOUR way, and be inspired by America’s extraordinary rivers and trails. #FindYourTrail #LewisandClarkTrail Countless generations of Americans—from the first inhabitants to westward settlers to modern vacationers—have followed America’s historic trails. Follow their paths and #FindYourWay to their remarkable stories. #FindYourTrail #LewisandClarkTrail Find Your Way to … (insert specific site or event here) #FindYourWay #FindYourTrail #LewisandClarkTrailWhen sharing this month's messaging on social media, use the hashtags: #LewisandClarkTrail Lewis 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.htmOn June 19, 1803, Meriwether Lewis wrote to his friend William Clark asking the former captain to consider joining the expedition of the west. Many historians consider this to be the “official beginning point” of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lewis’s Letter to Clark to Co-Lead Expedition (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) 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: June 8, 2021