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We Hereby Designate the General Zebulon Montgomery Pike INTERNational Historic Trail [ZPIT] The Pike National Historic Trail Association will manage the new trail featuring these four segments: Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Early Life Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s 1st Expedition – Upper Mississippi River Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s 2nd  Expedition (Lieutenant/Captain) – Southwest Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s Later Life...

The following comments have been selected from high level people in the trail community. The names of these persons have been withheld out of respect for them, and consideration for future efforts. Note: Specific words have been redacted and replaced by our words in [brackets] to preserve the identity of the person who is being...

Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s Southwest Expedition in 1806 and 1807 covered over 3660 miles from the mouth of the Missouri River north of St. Louis [Fort Belle Fontaine July 15, 1806] to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana [Fort Clybourn July 1, 1807.] Missouri The Pike party traveled 430 miles through Missouri, 11.7% of their mileage from Fort Belle...

The Pike Family carried the tradition of serving our country heroically in the US Military, naming their children Zebulon Montgomery Pike [holding to the nickname “Monty”] to follow their ancestor General Zebulon Montgomery Pike. Zebulon is a Hebrew name meaning “dwelling of honor”. Biblically: Zebulon was one of Jacob’s sons.  To this day, Pikes are...

Pike and Pike’s Advancements in Rank, by Allan Vainley. (Painting: Glory, Battle of York, by retired Disney artist, Ed French) In the 5.7 years following Pike’s return from his Southwest Expedition, Pike was advanced in rank four times from Captain to Brigadier General: Second Lieutenant March 3, 1799 – 2nd Infantry Regiment First Lieutenant November...

We just received notification that the Rotary Club of Lamar, CO is sponsoring the creation of an educational kiosk to be erected beside the Zebulon Pike Tower in Willow Creek Park. The kiosk will include a QR code that visitors can use to navigate to our website. The town of Lamar, in southeastern Colorado on...