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The trip to Dillon proved to be fun for many reasons, but one of them was that unexpectedly I came across some real Lewis and Clark sites. Now I say 'real' because I've always been almost where they were or close to where they were but never actually there. I was driving along totally enjoying the cows and hay fields when a historic site sign flew past my window. I pulled in and there I learned that the big rock beside the road was Beaver Head Rock. Apparently Clark had rushed to get there in time to purchase horses from the Shoshone for crossing the Rockies. The rock is an obvious landmark and was used by the Indians for that reason.
Once in Dillon I turned off onto old Hwy 91 for no reason other than the car in front of me did, and found a spot called Clark's Lookout State Park. It sits right under several homes. A road, called Lover's Leap taking off from the one I came in on, runs under it on the bluff side. The bluff isn't that tall. A little higher than the rock we jump off of down by the bridge. In other words, it's not a 'big deal'. It just sits there, perfectly accessible and hardly differentiated from the rest of the landscape. I loved it. Clark stood up there on the 14th, so 6 days after they're meeting with the Shoshone at Beaver Head Rock I took pictures of past Twin Bridges.
The trip to Dillon proved to be fun for many reasons, but one of them was that unexpectedly I came across some real Lewis and Clark sites. Now I say 'real' because I've always been almost where they were or close to where they were but never actually there. I was driving along totally enjoying the cows and hay fields when a historic site sign flew past my window. I pulled in and there I learned that the big rock beside the road was Beaver Head Rock. Apparently Clark had rushed to get there in time to purchase horses from the Shoshone for crossing the Rockies. The rock is an obvious landmark and was used by the Indians for that reason.
Once in Dillon I turned off onto old Hwy 91 for no reason other than the car in front of me did, and found a spot called Clark's Lookout State Park. It sits right under several homes. A road, called Lover's Leap taking off from the one I came in on, runs under it on the bluff side. The bluff isn't that tall. A little higher than the rock we jump off of down by the bridge. In other words, it's not a 'big deal'. It just sits there, perfectly accessible and hardly differentiated from the rest of the landscape. I loved it. Clark stood up there on the 14th, so 6 days after they're meeting with the Shoshone at Beaver Head Rock I took pictures of past Twin Bridges.
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