Granite Lake Park

On October 10th, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped across the river from this park and called the great river flowing in from the south Lewis' River. Clark wrote that the country on either side was an open, level, fertile plain with not a tree of any kind to be seen. As Lewis and Clark traveled through the region from here to Lolo Pass, more than sixty plants were identified for science. The Nee Mee Poo, or Nez Perce Indians, constructed temporary lodges near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers as they passed through the area. The first cluster of buildings erected here in the late 1800s was given the name Jawbone Flats. The Lewis-Clark Valley is no longer an open, treeless plain, and its mild climate and long growing season now support a wide variety of native and exotic plants, with dogwoods and other flowering trees bringing notable spring displays.

Clarkston, Washington · United States