Vancouver National Historic Reserve
Confluence of the Columbia River and the Klickitat Trail
Vancouver, Washington

"The land bridge is a real link connecting back to the Klickitat Trail, Lewis and Clark, and the development of the Northwest. It completes a circle that's been broken."

—Johnpaul Jones

Located along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, this historic site will feature a land bridge, designed by Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, Ltd., that will span the highway and reconnect Fort Vancouver to the waterfront. There, Maya Lin will restore the park to native, sustainably planted landscape and focus her art on the historic interactions between tribes and settlers. Considered a tribal crossroads, Fort Vancouver was built 20 years after Lewis and Clark camped there, at the confluence of the Columbia River and Klickitat Trail.

The artwork

Vancouver Land Bridge

Designed by Seattle architect Johnpaul Jones, a 40-foot-wide, earth-covered pedestrian bridge, adorned with native plantings, arches over State Route 14. The bridge reconnects the land to the waterfront, where a "treaty table" artwork by Maya Lin will reside.

Timeline

Construction is in progress; the Vancouver Land Bridge will be honored in a public event in late summer, 2008. Construction of the $12.25 million project is a partnership of Confluence Project members, the National Park Service, the City of Vancouver and the Washington State Department of Transportation, and made possible through federal, state and private funding.

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Model of the Vancouver Land Bridge Design.

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