Lewis and Clark Trail
Image Credit: Painting by Jim CorrCamp Fortunate area 1805 (Now under Clark Canyon Reservoir N44°59.944',W112°51.303') |
About 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark were given orders to find a route of commercial transport across the western United States. Their plan was to bridge the headwaters of the Missouri River, knowing little about what means were available to them on the other side of the great divide. The intrepid explorers found the Northwest Passage, but the meanderings, precipitous cascades, and long portages of a river route proved unfavorable to heavy commerce. Instead, Lewis and Clark are revered as explorers - not as the trailblazers of industrialism. The mere mention of their names strikes a cord of adventure with the source-seeking nature in all of us.
Discover it for yourself. Download this GPS map and drive the path of the Lewis and Clark, exploring the United States from the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers in St Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington state. With the aid of satellite navigation you will travel over days what took Lewis and Clark years of exploration.
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Tour Guide Details
File Name: Lewis_ClarkRevised: 4 June 2008
Class B Data
Waypoints: 25 Points of interest
Alternate File Format
I origionally authored this GPS map in DeLorme Transfer (.dmt) File format. The (.dmt) format is native to DeLorme's Street Atals software, which is an excellent car navigation program for lap top/mobile PC computers. If you have DeLorme Software you can download the (.dmt) file here. The contents of the (.dmt) file include driving directions, MapNotes, and waypoints. The below is the distance and travel time of the Lewis and Clark Trail as calculated by the Street Atlas program.
Miles hr : min Total 2,693 56:32
