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Description: This interactive series of 14 stations offers visitors a chance for a hands-on experience of the Lewis & Clark adventure. Climb aboard a keelboat, outrun a grizzly bear, and see if you can lift a cradleboard like Sacajawea carried. These activities plus geography, botany, Native American culture, a military camp site, corps tools and much more bring the Corps of Discovery to life. Costumed interpreters will be on the course daily to help visitors get the most out of their trip. Course open from 9am to 5pm. This hands-on outdoor challenge course will give visitors of all ages a first-hand experience of the challenges faced by Corps members, as well as a basic knowledge of the mission of the Expedition, significant events along the trail, and a view of the sights still visible from the museum that look pretty much as Clark saw them when he passed through the valley. Visitors will enter the course through a 'trade center' where they will receive a journal containing maps and information, e.g., how to pick a campsite, puzzles and games that can be played later, perhaps in the car. From there, they will proceed to learn about the mission of the Expedition and Jefferson's secret code for its members. Next, they will meet the 'circle of friends' who make up the Corps of Discovery and represent the tribes they met. The fourth station requires visitors to proceed on by putting their way across a 30-foot map of the trail. Farther along the course, visitors will be able to board a 55-foot keelboat, to load and 'fire' a flintlock, to try to outrun a charging grizzly (sorry, no way). They can also consider what was lost along the way, pass through a Mandan garden of corn, tobacco and squash, to learn more about navigation and mapping as the American Indians did it. Visitors can rest a spell in the tipi village, listen to stories in the evening, and learn about communication, language barriers and translation. By station 10, they are facing the key decision at the Missouri Headwaters and moving on into more in-depth cultural contact. Can you pull the canoe up the bank' Carry a growing Pomp on your back' Make Rope' Learn new ways to make food' Practice medicine' Visitors will also pass through a military style tent encampment and have the chance to hear music and sing along with 'Yankee Doodle' to record events in their own journal and to learn more about military rules. Station 14 is an amphitheater for teaching activities, where trunks of learning activities will be presented. Finally, the Discovery Garden showcases plantings and lists the named species discovered, along with their journal descriptions. |
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