The vehicle is heading west on the asphalt road that was once the Santa Fe Trail. The flagpole described on the marker is visible in the field at upper left.

The dark green area beyond is a modern levee along the Missouri River--and yet signs warn the road can still be impassable. Floods in 1826 and 28 forced settlers in the frontier town to abandon log cabins for higher ground. Today, nothing is left but open farm land.