Join Academy educators in discovering how the scientists who contributed to the Academy collections prepared Meriwether Lewis for his journey west and how the specimens collected came home to the Academy.

The Lewis and Clark Trail Junior Ranger program is available at more than 30 locations along the 4,900 mile Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. To earn a Junior Ranger badge, you'll work on an activity booklet. Activities will guide you to check out the place you're visiting and to find out why that place is important to the Lewis and Clark Expedition story. As you fill in the blanks, you'll learn about Native lands. As you decode messages, you'll get to know expedition members’ diverse backgrounds and skills. Join Academy educators in discovering how the scientists who contributed to the Academy collections prepared Meriwether Lewis for his journey west and how the specimens collected came home to the academy.

Junior Ranger programs connect kids and their families to the people, places, and stories of the National Park Service.

Color the Trail Coloring Pages

These coloring pages courtesy of the National Park Service/Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail invite you to experience plants that hold deep cultural, spiritual, and practical importance for Native peoples across North America. As you color, learn how white sagebrush, camas, bitterroot, tobacco, prairie turnip, chokecherry, and Western redcedar have sustained generations through food, medicine, ceremony, and crafting. Rooted in traditions of storytelling as well as care and connection to the land, each page offers a glimpse into the enduring knowledge and stewardship practices of Tribal Nations throughout Prairie, Plains, Plateau and Pacific Northwest Coast bioregions