Delayed by a Decision…Which Way to go?

An unexpected fork downriver bewildered the explorers and delayed their progress.

Captain Meriwether Lewis and four men journeyed overland primed with Indian information that waterfalls marked the Missouri River. The men quickened their pace upon hearing a distant sound of falling water, and their arrival at the :sublimely grand spectacle" on June 13, 1805 confirmed their correct choice of rivers. Marias River, the fork not taken, lay 50 miles downriver.

Erected by U.S. Forest Service, NorthWestern Energy, River Fund, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.