 Experience breathtaking natural beauty and hear about the most important, vivid, and compelling episodes of the entire journey that brought the Corps of Discovery to their goal, the powerful Pacific Ocean.
Day One
From Vancouver, travel east along Highway 14 into the beautiful Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Take a break at, or trek the mile-long trail up, Beacon Rock, named by Lewis and Clark on October 31, 1805. Explore the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum with American Indian artifacts from the Columbia Gorge tribes and a Lewis and Clark exhibit. Travel south across the majestic “Bridge of the Gods” into Oregon and continue west on I-84. Stop and explore Multnomah Falls. Plummeting 620 feet from its origins on Larch Mountain, Multnomah Falls is the second highest, year-round waterfall in the nation. Here, all your senses will come alive as you experience the sights and sounds of these magnificent falls. Take the Historic Columbia River Highway to the Vista House Interpretive Center at Crown Point, an octagonal stone structure that towers 733 feet above the Columbia River with awesome views. Cross back into Washington State on I-205 across the Columbia River. Dine at one of the many waterfront restaurants in Vancouver USA, taking in the view of the Columbia River and Mt. Hood in the distance. Overnight in Vancouver, Washington.
Day Two
Scout around Fort Vancouver National Site, featuring the reconstructed Fort Vancouver established by the British Hudson’s Bay Company as headquarters to their extensive fur trading network. In March of 1806, Meriwether Lewis wrote in his journal that the valley in which the fort would later be built on as “the only desirable situation for a settlement which I have seen on the West side of the Rocky mountains.” Afterwards, visit the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, the site of where Lewis and Clark encountered the Chinook village of Cathlapotle and engaged in trade. A replica of the Cathlapotle plankhouse is accessed on a short walking trail. At the refuge, enjoy a narrated four-mile auto tour open year-round, a seasonal two-mile walking trail, or kayak the refuge just like Lewis and Clark. While on your way to the Long Beach Peninsula, stretch your legs in Wahkiakum County at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for White-Tailed Deer. Viewing platforms allow you to see deer and elk species first described for science by Lewis and Clark. Or picnic at the Skamokawa Vista Park and witness the many sites Lewis and Clark mentioned in the expedition journals. Overnight on the Long Beach Peninsula.
 Day Three
Take in many of Long Beach’s unique and fun shops or try one of their many mouth watering restaurants. Take a tour of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Cape Disappointment. Exhibits focus on the history of Lewis and Clark’s experiences at the mouth of the Columbia River and include an award winning film, “Dreams and Discovery: Lewis and Clark’s Arrival at the Pacific.” Take a leisurely walk along Discovery Trail and trace the path William Clark and his men carved across Cape Disappointment and along the Pacific Coast in November 1805. The trail includes a boardwalk with views of the mighty Pacific Ocean. Interpretive displays along the way include a 20-foot bronze tree, recreating the tree William Clark marked his name on four miles up the beach from Beard’s Hollow, and a full skeleton of a gray whale commemorating William Clark’s observation of March 19, 1805, “I saw...Several joints of the backbone of a whale which must have foundered on this part of the coast.”
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