Lewis and Clark Trail-Travois Road

The Lewis and Clark Trail–Travois Road is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) historic site located 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Pomeroy, Washington, on U.S. Route 12 (US 12).

It is a surviving stretch of Indian travois trail followed by Lewis and Clark in their 1805–06 expedition and mentioned in their writings.

[1][2] The site is significant for the 1805–06 event, for including "a trail that was very important in aboriginal times", and for its information potential.

[3] Travois were used by American Indians to transport possessions by means of two long poles slung with a hammock trailing behind a horse or dog.

The deep, parallel tracks caused by the dragging poles are still visible today in a quarter-mile (0.4 km) section of the original trail, sometimes called the Nez Perce Trail, followed by the Lewis and Clark Expedition and preserved at this site.