Not far from Weston Bend State Park is another place where Lewis and Clark visited.  It's called Lewis & Clark State Park and it's not far from St. Joseph.  This is a very small park and a very nice quiet place to camp, watch birds and swim for a little while in the lake.

The lake here is called an oxbow lake.  That means that the Missouri River once made a big curve here, but later changed its course.  Now the water that was once in the river is now in the lake that has a big curve in it. 

I spent some time walking around on the prairie and learned that park rangers are trying to restore the park like it was when Lewis and Clark were here.  Lewis and Clark wrote in their journals about all of the pretty birds they saw here, and still today, it's a good place to see heron and geese and egrets and all sorts of other birds.

It's a very pretty park with nice picnic shelters for me and my bear friends to get together and have a picnic.