 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
May 14, 1804
"...proceded up the Missouris under Sail to the first island on the Missouri and Camped...men in high spirits."
William Clark
When Lewis and Clark passed through St. Louis, the Mississippi stretched across what is now Columbia Bottom Conservation Area. The rich lands attracted settlement for the earliest times. Marquette and Joliet, the first known European explorers to the region, noted the area and its people in 1672. Lush wetlands nurtured wildlife, fish and forests. William Clark later described a landscape composed of many grasslands and forests. The habitats as seen by Lewis and Clark are being restored to the area, so watch as the land is transformed into the wetlands, prairies and forests of 200 years ago.
Missouri Department of Conservation.
Columbia Bottoms Rd., confluence parking area, Columbia Bottoms C.A., Spanish Lake, Saint Louis County Missouri
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