This Lewis and Clark  hike puts you in the footsteps of the explorers starting at the Headwaters of the Missouri outside of Three Forks, Montana.  This field site experience is a place of participatory re-enactment.  The hike is approximately a mile to the junction of the Madison River/Jefferson River confluence.  From there the group drives to the location of Sacajawea's capture on the Jefferson.   Interpretive hiking guides lead the group into the cottonwoods along the Jefferson River where they learn about the Jefferson River and the Indians of the era.  At the 60 acre field site, the group searches for cottonwoods big enough for a dugout canoe.  There is a Flintlock rifle demonstration.  You join the "Corps of Discovery" paddleing a dugout canoe down river and then pulling it a way up the Jefferson.  Guides teach participants how to make a primitive knife and  flint fires. Trading items like the pipe/ax are displayed at the Teepee camp where you meet your guide.  The field site, which is 4  miles south of Three Forks on Hwy. 287 & 1, services groups by appointment.  At the final destination hikers locate the place where Clark shot a Bighorn sheep below Frazers River flowing into the Jefferson.  If you like histyory and hiking/trekking the Lewis and Clark Trail, a guided hike can be fun and educational.

Lewis and Clark Field Site Hikes 11227 US Hwy 287 Three Forks, MT 59752 Call: 1-406-285-3488 or  Email Description:  Historic Guided Trekking:  375.00 per group of 20 or less   A "step-on" historian/guide joins your group to help understand the "Corps of Discovery's" route and activities from the Headwaters of the Missouri up the Jefferson River to Lewis and Clark Caverns.   Canoeing the Lewis and Clark Trail is another historic guided trip offered by the Canoeing House in Three Forks, Montana.  This is the link to: Canoeing the Lewis and Clark Trail.

The 1500 pound cottonwood is 30 feet long.  Are you ready for the challenge, to step back in time and pull it up the Jefferson River like the "Corps of Discovery" 200 years ago?

School Groups welcome for history field trips.     Come join the adventure!

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