Lewis & Clark Trail Atlas

The route as Congress designated it, the roads, bike routes and water trails that follow it today, and the campsites, landings and river channels the Corps recorded in 1804.

Drawing the trail

Where this comes from

These 22 layers are a mirror of the LECL Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, published by the National Park Service on ArcGIS Online and retrieved on September 21, 2026. NPS is retiring the organisation that hosted them, so we copied the collection here to keep it public.

The National Park Service remains the system of record. This copy is not authoritative and is not a legal or survey document. Where NPS publishes a newer version, theirs governs. Original records live in the NPS IRMA DataStore.

Layers
22
Mapped features
20,430
States
16
Trail miles
4,900
Every layer, and the NPS record it came from

Item IDs are plain text, not links. They identify the original ArcGIS Online records for anyone tracing provenance, but those addresses stop resolving once the hosting organisation is retired, which is why this mirror exists.

LayerFeaturesGeometryNPS source item ID
Congressionally Designated Route 62 Polyline 862abcecaa114974845b9ebe5bfa6e2f
Auto Route 1 Polyline 735ed21e17544ebbbef9b4f3f57624fc
Auto Route (segmented data) 3,396 Polyline 2806623b0d89469f967043d0ea2aa41a
Potential Bike Trail, Pittsburgh to Astoria 23 Polyline f9156edb7a924fbc99aa1932684f5e87
Water Trails 18 Polyline b8f478fc836b490b9c8160b78e3582c7
Visitor Centers and Museums 172 Point d234be9257b84fea91666c9c4c52b9c9
Pivotal Places 62 Point 14cff0bf150041ee8719a5fff629a241
High Potential Historic Sites 93 Point d3cb1870cd244ec1b1871d80371b1e70
Historic Campsites (Bergantino) 641 Point 7ca55da564964e1092a36850b699da60
Historic Outbound Campsites (Harlan) 244 Point 4ebf9e86b6ff4d36b1a4a33c553df816
Historic Observation Locations 1,590 Point 65ae7ae9ea6a4d10a8563034280d370a
Historic Course and Distance 1,591 Polyline 0fba1e6d0d414e5cbc65f537f79394fe
Historic Side Excursions 6 Polyline 8a7707fbf2074085a132b047ab07fa86
Historic Channel of the Missouri River, 1804 2,507 Polygon b6fe87f7273f455d9f18812351162dd0
Historic Tributaries and Streams 8,955 Polyline ab2c0cb4c8824c5e85114cc272334bc1
Species Discoveries 137 Point 694de8e5df7c4bf3b3c8b3a2469268e0
Trail Corridor 1 Polygon effcc2440e00444f8a856a93513591bb
Descent Trail 1 Polyline 1b79dc6371d3461eb032c1c64f159d5f
Panoramic Mapping, 2025 Field Locations 70 Point 864b98eac760422e95ce2a94f6e459ec
Archive: Auto Route 802 Polyline 56a1786b38354612b25a02774364b6f3
Archive: Historic Route 57 Polyline 8a5d4ac482ee4b24baca6dbab5422dbc
Archive: Bike Trail (unsegmented) 1 Polyline a7b9666d7d2d4e7a90cb751db56b48df

This mirror carries 100% of the High Potential Historic Sites records NPS published: all 93, unfiltered. NPS removed restricted locations on their side before release -- the only HPHS item in their organisation is Cultural_HPHS_nonsensitive, a single layer with no restricted sibling, and every record carries REDACTED='NO'. Nothing was withheld in making this copy. SENS_PL / SC_QUAL / FREE_INT / PRS_REM are HPHS evaluation criteria (sense of place, scenic quality, free interpretation, preserved remains), not protection flags. Obtaining the full unredacted set would require a direct data-sharing arrangement with NPS; the disclosure restrictions under NHPA 304 and ARPA 9 bind the agency's release, not this mirror.

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