Things To Do

Traveling to some of the locations below? You may be driving right next to an Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail partner site or natural feature! Make a detour to learn more about floods or see some evidence on the landscape.

Note: the below list is not a comprehensive list of all sites along the geologic trail. For a complete list, check out Plan Your Visit to search by state, or navigate via the interactive map.

 

 

National Bison Range, with strandlines in the background.

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Missoula, Montana

• Montana Natural History Center
• Eddy Narrows

Flying into Missoula on your way to Glacier National Park? Stop by the National Bison Range and the Camas Prairie Ripples on your way.

 

Spokane Falls, Spokane's Riverfront Park

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Spokane, Washington

• Bowl and Pitcher (Riverside State Park)
• Spokane’s Riverfront Park and the Ice Age floods playground.
• Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Have a bit of extra time in Spokane and want to go for a drive? Explore Fort Spokane, part of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. The Fort Spokane Visitor Center is open during the summer, while the grounds are open year round.

 

Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park

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Grand Coulee Dam, Washington

• Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center
• Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area

Heading south from Grand Coulee Dam? Explore the Coulee Corridor and more evidence of the floods at Steamboat Rock State Park and Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park (which also has Ice Age Floods exhibits in the visitor center!)

 

Palouse Falls State Park

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Tri-Cities (Richland, Kennewick, Pasco), Washington

• The Reach Museum
• Palouse Falls State Park
• Hanford - Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Home of Lake Lewis during the Ice Age floods, hike Candy Mountain to see erratic boulders left behind when the waters moved on.

 

Willamette Falls

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Portland, Oregon

• Tualatin Heritage Center
• Willamette Falls

Head into the Willamette Valley, see a 90-ton erratic rock that has travel over 500 miles at Erratic Rock State Natural Site.

Planning to travel along the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area?

• Crown Point National Natural Landmark
• Multnomah Falls and Lodge
• Beacon Rock
• Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum

 

Model of the Willamette Valley Meteorite, outside of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, OR.

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Eugene, Oregon

• Museum of Natural History at the University of Oregon

Not too far away, near Corvallis, you’ll also be able to check out a largely unplowed native grassland and ash woodland, Willamette Floodplain National Natural Landmark.