Walk in the footsteps of Meriwether Lewis as he bought supplies for the expedition in 1803. At the same time, experience the birth of the United States at key places in the Independence National Historic Park. The trip by foot is 2 miles long. (If you open this itinerary in Google, be sure to switch the travel method Walking.) At some of the sites, expect security checks.
When Meriwether Lewis left Harpers Ferry for Pittsburgh via Brownsville, he followed a corridor traveled for millennia. On July 8, Lewis wrote President Jefferson: “I shall set out myself in the course of an hour, taking the rout of Charlestown, Frankfort, Uniontown and Redstone old fort to Pittsburgh, at which place I shall most probably arrive on the 15th.” Today’s modern traveler can retrace Lewis’s route—a course followed by Native Americans, soldiers in the French and Indian War, and Lewis’s own Virginia Militia in the Whiskey Rebellion. Follow along at our educational website starting with July 8, 1803 and ending […]