Pike's Stockade

Gain insights into the adventures and capture by the Spanish of U.S. Explorer Zebulon Pike, who built a stockade on this site on the banks of the Conejos River in 1807 while exploring in Spanish territory. Pike likely knew he was on Spanish land and that his capture was imminent. The journals written during his captivity in Santa Fe and published in the nineteenth century gave an expanding U.S. a hunger for the West.