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Beacon Rock, Columbia River Gorge, Warrendale, Oregon, December 24, 2002

[View: north.  45º 36’ 45” N - 122º 00’ 52” W]

[Clark]                                                                             Novr. 2d Saturday 1805

. . .  at 3 miles, a Isd Covd with wood below on Stard. Side a remarkable high rock

on Stard. Side about 800 feet high & 400 yds round, the Beaten Rock.    

[Lewis]                                                                               Sunday April 6^th 1806. 

. . .  from the appearance of a rock near which we had encamped on the 3^rd of

November last I could judge better of the rise of the water than I could at any

point below. . .  this remarkable rock which stands on the North shore of the

river is unconnected with the hills and rises to the hight of seven hundred feet;

it has some pine or reather fir timber on it’s northern side, the southern is a

precipice of it’s whole hight.  it rises to a very sharp point and is visible for 20

miles below on the river.