 One-day White Cliffs Trip: We offer one or two-day power boat adventures from Coal Banks to Judith Landing. This is a 47 mile trip in the White Cliffs section of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. This adventure will take you along the same section of the river painted by Karl Bodmer in the early 1830’s. You can sit back in oversized aluminum director chairs and enjoy the legendary White Cliffs section of the Upper Missouri River as our catamaran slowly motors down river to the historic Judith Landing. Both trips start at 9:00 a.m., at Coal Banks Landing. For the one-day trip we will provide snacks, lunch, and the evening meal. We should reach Judith Landing about 8:00 p.m. On the two-day trip we will spend one night at the Hole-in-the-Wall campground and reach Judith Landing the next day. We will provide everything
listed on the one-day trip, plus everything you will need for a special night out in the Missouri River Breaks.
The price of the one-day trip is $200 per person based on four passengers & includes meals and a vehicle shuttle. The price of the two-day trip is $300 per person based on four passengers. Please conact us even if you do not have four passengers as we have many request from singles and couples to set up a float with another couple. Call for group rates.
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The White Cliffs of the Missouri River Breaks
The White cliffs are described by Meriwether Lewis in 1805 in this section of "The Way of the Western Sea", by David Lavender.
“In a section the explorers called the “Stone Walls”, the multihued bluffs were banded with a thick stratum of almost horizontal white sandstone. In places this band was seamed perpendicularly by intrusive dikes of dark brown volcanic porphyry. Erosion of the softer material around the dikes had left the jointed rocks standing as trim as walls, only a few feet thick and often scores of feet tall, of “workmanship so perfect
. . . that I should have thought that Nature had attempted to rival the human art of masonry” (Lewis). Elsewhere water draining off the land back of the steep bluffs had worn the white sandstone “into a thousand grotesque figures ... collumns of various sculptures both grooved and plain . . . some collumns standing and almost entire with their pedestels and capitals ... some lying prostrate and broken.” Pyramids, organ pipes, spires, niches, alcoves-scores of scenes of “visionary inchantment.” Fitting enough, this entrancing region was inhabited by large numbers of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.”
You can see by Karl Bodmer’s painting "View of the Stone Walls" at river mile 57, that the White Cliffs must have looked almost the same in 1833 when Karl Bodmer accompanied Prince Maximilian of Weid Neuwied on their travels in the interior of North America in 1833-4.
Like Meriwether Lewis and Karl Bodmer, you too can see the “Stone Walls” of the Missouri River Breaks and learn more about Karl Bodmer on our ”Karl Bodmer in the White Cliffs” adventure.
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The top picture is “The Grand Natural Wall” at River Mile 57.
The lower picture is "View of the Stone Walls" at River Mile 57 by Karl Bodmer.
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