Fun Times at Dismal Nitch

The Park Service will grow by another 154 acres soon. The newly formed Lewis and Clark National Historical Park is adding land associated with the Voyage of Discovery 200 years ago. A conservation fund purchased the land and will transfer it to the Park Service next year. The area is known as Dismal Nitch. Here is what Captain William Clark had to say about his stay there, 200 years ago:

November 15, 1805

The rainey weather Continued without a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time from the 5th in the morng. untill the 16th is eleven days rain, and the most disagreeable time I have experienced Confined on a tempiest Coast wet, where I can neither get out to hunt, return to a better Situation, or proceed on: in this Situation have we been for Six days past.

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