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The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is built into a scenic bluff with spectacular views of the Missouri River. So the two RV Gypsies began this exploration at The Broadwater Overlook, on the right side of the building, which provided the two RV Gypsies with a great view of the Missouri River, and a small island full of birds. |
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Below: Then the two RV Gypsies
walked down some stairs alongside the cliff and the building, then down
a long pathway to get to the Cliff Trail. |
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Below: Once down on the Cliff
Trail, the two RV Gypsies stopped to read the four signs shown below.
If you like history, click on each of the four signs so they will be
big enough to read. If not interested in reading the signs, just continue
on down this page. |
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Below: The elevator that goes up and indoors to the Interpretive Center. The two RV Gypsies decided that they would use the elevator when it is time to go inside the Interpretive Center, rather than go back up the stairs they just came down. |
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Below: Looking
up at the top of the Interpretive Center from the Cliff trail. |
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Below: Then
the two RV Gypsies heard loud voices and knew there were people at the
top of the cliff. |
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Below: Suddenly the two
RV Gypsies saw a person trying to come down the side of the cliff. |
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Below; Two more people emerged
from the thicket. The first dude had his butt all covered with mud and
he was laughing so hard, so Karen Duquette just had to take a photo.
The second dude was poking at his fingers as he was emerging, because
he was trying to get the mud out of his fingernails. |
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Below: A few feet way, the
two RV Gypsies came to a trail going up (or coming down) from the cliff.
the sign said it is a 20% grade, cross slope of 5%, and trail width
of 2-feet. No thanks! (But that would have been easier than where the
dudes above came down from). |
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Below After reading the signs
below, the two RV Gypsies were amazed as they watched birds feeding
their babies that were inside holes in the cliffs. |
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Below: All the white specks
seen in the holes are baby birds. The parent birds kept flying into
the holes to give them food. |
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Below: Continuing down the
Cliff Trail, the two RV Gypsies heard a small waterfall, but they could
not get close-enough to see more than an itsy-bitsy glimpse of it. |
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Below: The two
RV Gypsies realized that they had walked far enough on the trail to
come to Great Springs State Park, site of another historic landmark
along the Lewis and Clark Trail. For more on the state park, see the
menu below. |
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