Land Development

Lewis and Clark Discovery Greenway

In 1803, Congress appropriated $2,500 to fund a small expedition to explore the uncharted West and President Thomas Jefferson named the expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the “Corps of Discovery.” The expedition camped in the areas now known as the Willamette and Columbia River valleys on its way to the Pacific Coast in 1805 and on the return trip in 1806.

Nearly 200 years later, DEA created a master plan for the commemoration of several sites along the Lewis and Clark trail.

DEA completed an inventory and recommendations study of historic Lewis & Clark campsites on the Columbia and Willamette rivers in the Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., areas. The resulting plan included a site inventory and analysis, opportunity and constraint evaluation, missing trail links identification, alternatives and related cost development, owner agency review and support, final recommended improvements, preliminary phasing and rough preliminary development costs, and the framework needed for the region to work together towards the common goal.