Lewis and Clark Forest camp site

There are many Lewis and Clark historical sites along this trail. The congress funded expedition of 1805 was to examine the opportunities for colonization on the west coast. It turned out that we could stop the night in the parking lot of a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt (who was instrumental in establishing the National Park system). We parked for the night and in the morning had a great view of mountains in Glacier National Park to the north.
We were at 5,216 ft at the top of Maria’s Pass which had been surveyed in 1889 for the route of the railway to the West Coast.The Great Northern railway was built in 1891. It is of interest that the Rogers Pass in Canada was discovered earlier in 1881 and the railway built in 1884.