Canoe Camp National Historical Park is located along Highway 12 at Orofino. Lewis and Clark arrived here Sept. 26, 1805. The group dug and burned out trees to make canoes for their trip to the Pacific Ocean. Dworshak Dam is 717 feet tall, the tallest straight axis, concrete, gravity dam in the western world and largest ever constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The hatchery was built in 1969, as a result of the dam preventing adult steelhead from reaching their native waters.
Visitors are welcome daily.
This plaza was built to honor the logging history in the area. A beautiful bronze statue is the centerpiece of the plaza. There are benches to sit on and an interpretive display that informs the visitor of the history surrounding logging in the area. President's Cup Golf Tournament, Orofino Golf Course. This site is built on a Macintosh G4 utilizing Adobe products.