Journal entry · December 7, 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — Patrick Gass: December 7, 1805
Patrick Gass · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
had a fine clear morning. We put our canoes into the water,
loaded them, and started for our intended wintering place.
We coasted down the south side about a mile, and then met
with the six men, who had gone for meat. They had brought
4 of the skins but no meat, the distance being great and the
weather very bad. The swells being too high here to land we
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went two miles further and took the men in. We then pro-
ceeded round the bay until we came to the mouth of a river
about 100 yards broad, which we went up about 2 miles to the
place fixed upon for winter quarters, unloaded our canoes,
and carried our baggage about 200 yards to a spring, where
we encamped.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Fort Clatsop; west of Lewis and Clark River, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Visitor Center (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 0.1 mi
- Fort Clatsop (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · National Register · 0.1 mi
- Columbia River Maritime Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 4.7 mi
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
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