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Get out one last time for a camping trip

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Summertime is coming to a close and it’s time to get out for one last camping trip! The Lewis & Clark National Historic Park is a place packed full of history, spectacular scenic views and one of the best camping experiences around. This overly huge Historic Park stretches a whopping 40 miles along the Pacific [...]

Simple Pocket Knives are essential for Camping

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It is always suggested that you prepare a check list when you decide to take a camping trip so you can keep a track of what you have and what you might need to buy. Some who may favor roughing it out may select terribly fundamental things, which are sufficient to get by particularly if they [...]

Quick and Easy tips for Camping and National Parks

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There is probably no doubt that you’ll be going camping sometime this summer. When you go camping, you may potentially visit a Nationwide Park of some type. Many years back you used to be in a position to pull into a campground, put up your tent and start enjoying the great outside. That isn’t so true any [...]

The Lewis & Clark Story at Their Destination

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“Ocian in view! O! the joy.” When Capt. William Clark wrote these words in his journal on November 7, 1805, he was not standing at the Pacific Ocean but the Columbia River estuary.  It would be another couple of weeks before he and Capt. Meriwether Lewis would stand at what they had “been so long [...]

Welcome to America’s newest National Park

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The Lewis And Clark National And State Historical Parks This is a joint venture, in the process of creation, between the National Park Service and the States of Oregon and Washington.  “Great joy in camp we are in view of the Ocian, this great Pacific Ocian which we been so long anxious to See.”  William [...]