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Lewis and Clark Trail State Park
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Lewis and Clark Trail State Park

west of Dayton, Washington
visited 21 June 2023
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Some 217 years ago, Captains Lewis and Clark supposedly spent the night in this location on their way home from the Pacific Ocean. You can, too, though it might not be quite as noteworthy.

I’m on a larger road trip and this park, conveniently located along US 12 in eastern Washington, offered a nice place to get out and stretch my legs.

There are a few short trails around the grounds, which mostly offer views of the surrounding farmsteads.

A gravel path curves through a grassy rural landscape lined with tall pine and deciduous trees under a bright blue sky with wispy clouds. In the distance sits a small red barn backed by rolling green hills.
Bright green maple leaves fill the frame against the deeply furrowed gray bark of a large tree trunk and its splitting branches, lit by midday sunlight in a leafy forest.
A dirt hiking trail winds through a green wooded area, with a large ponderosa pine bearing thick, deeply furrowed reddish bark standing prominently on the right. Dense leafy shrubs and trees line the path, and the ground is scattered with fallen leaves and pine needles under dappled sunlight.

The park’s web site and numerous signs around the park warned of cottonwood fluff being everywhere. They weren’t kidding.

A tangle of tree branches draped with pale, wispy lichen and moss, backlit by daylight filtering through dense green foliage in a wooded thicket.

There are a couple of peek-a-boo views of the Touchet River from one of the trails.

A small creek winding through tall green grasses and leafy brush in the foreground, with a rounded green wheat-covered hill rising beyond dry brushy slopes under a bright blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds. Power line poles stand along the ridge to the right.
A narrow dirt footpath tunnels beneath low arching tree branches and dense green foliage, with tall grasses and brush crowding both sides and a bright grassy clearing visible ahead.

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