In 1804, Lewis & Clark departed the riverbank in St. Charles amid cheers from the many citizens lining the banks. Gone two years and four months, the Discovery Expedition traversed the wild, largely unknown Missouri River Valley and western territories, scaled the Great Divide, and reached the Pacific.

On September 13th, you too, will be cheered as you explore the Missouri River Valley. You will travel back in history as you cross the Missouri river, travel through historic St. Charles and navigate the abandoned railway that is now the Katy Trail. You will return to the very campsite where Lewis and Clark started – triumphant!

“The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, and such principal streams of it, as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent.”
   
- President Thomas Jefferson, 1803