We will be travelling in two canoes, one kayak, and one inflatable raft which Cate brought from Russia.
The Missouri River starts in Three Forks, MT, and travels through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. 2,464 miles later "Big Muddy" joins the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.We will continue on the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. All told, we would pass through 13 states and paddle roughly 4000 miles.
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. In northeast Montana, she passes thrugh a million-acre wildlife refuge. As she flows east and then south through Montana and the Dakotas, the Missouri forms three large lakes - each the result of dams installed to control the flooding the river caused in previous years.
Lewis and Clark made their way up the Missouri, over the Rockies and on to the Pacific coast by way of the Columbia River almost 200 years ago. Their journey was certainly more arduous than ours will be - as they went upstream the 2,464 miles to the headwaters! |
