Lewis and Clark's Columbia River - Jones Beach, Oregon

Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Jones Beach, Oregon"

Includes ... Jones Beach ... Wallace Island ... Cape Horn of Wahkiakum County ... Flandersville ...

Image, 2004, Jones Beach, Oregon, with Mount St. Helens, click to enlarge

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Jones Beach, Oregon, with Mount St. Helens, Washington. Wallace Island is in the background. Image taken February 21, 2004.

Jones Beach ...

Jones Beach, Oregon, can be reached from U.S. Highway 30, just west of Clatskanie, Oregon. It is located downstream of Wallace Island, upstream of Puget Island, and across the river from Cape Horn of Wahkiakum County, Washington. Jones Beach is a relatively new beach created out of sand dredged from the shipping lanes of the Columbia River.

Views from Jones Beach ...

Click image to enlarge	Wallace Island, with Mount St. Helens in the background, as seen from Jones Beach, Oregon. Image taken November 20, 2004.
Click image to enlarge	Cape Horn of Wahkiakum, Washington, as seen from Jones Beach, Oregon. The lesser-known of the Cape Horns along the Columbia River. Looking upstream from Jones Beach, Oregon. Wallace Island is in the distance, right. Image taken February 21, 2004.

Flandersville, Washington ...

Flandersville is a small Washington community located across the Columbia River from Jones Beach.

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Flandersville, Washington, as seen from Jones Beach, Oregon. Looking across the Columbia River at Flandersville, Washington, from Jones Beach, Oregon. Flandersville is just downstream of Cape Horn. Image taken February 21, 2004.

Mount St. Helens from Jones Beach ...

Image, 2004, Mount St. Helens, as seen from Jones Beach, click to enlarge

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Mount St. Helens in the background, Wallace Island in the foreground, as seen from Jones Beach, Oregon. Image taken February 21, 2004.

From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

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^*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Website, 2003

Sources: Hay, K.G., 2004, The Lewis and Clark Columbia River Water Trail, Timber Press, Portland.

All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.