Lewis & Clark
Trail
Long Beach Washington

The Clark Tree site stands at the northern end of the Discovery Trail. Experts consider this the farthest point north that Clark's party traveled. A commemorative bench, top right, marks the spot. The bronze, sculpted, 20 foot tree represents a tree where Clark carved his message somewhere along this coastal dune complex. That morning Clark had sent hunters ahead to "Kill Something for Brackfast.... they had killed a Small Deer on which we brackfast[.]" The deer was probably a Columbian black-tailed deer. He described one, in detail, that day "[with] the top of the tale black...."

 

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