National Park Service turns 99

Your National Park Service is 99 years old and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park is having a birthday party on August 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be family fun activities, kids crafts and free canoe rides for age 5-yrs. old and up, music, face painting, painting lady bugs on rocks, an insect-catching contest, and free hamburgers, veggie burgers, chips, veggie snacks and beverage –courtesy of the Lewis and Clark National Park Association and prepared by the wonderful Astoria-Warrenton Lions Club.

The birthday party will be held at Netul Landing, next to Fort Clatsop.

Also, Lewis and Clark NHP will commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Fort Clatsop builders in conjunction with the 99th Anniversary of National Park Service (Founder’s Day). The general public will meet and greet the original Fort Clatsop builders from 1955.

Netul Landing is located one mile south of Fort Clatsop on Fort Clatsop Road.

For more information, call Lewis and Clark NHP, Fort Clatsop at (503) 861-2471.