PROPHETS ROCK TRAIL

Prophets Rock Trail branches off the Wabash Heritage Trail - Burnetts Creek Section just outside of the TippeCanoe Battlefield Memorial.  It has a slow uphill climb to Prophets Rock Road where the trail crosses and turns into much more rugged trail. As it winds through the forest; climbing and descending hills, markers are placed to explain what we are looking at, such as a cedar tree suggesting the hill wasn’t always forested.  The trail stops by a parking lot and a monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution showing the spot where the Prophet Tenskwatawa sang a magic song to protect his Shawnee warriors from the bullets of Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison’s men.

The trail is a loop within Prophets Rock Park, so there is a secondary trail that can be taken back to the road crossing before returning to Wabash Heritage Trail.  Tenskwatawa’s brother Tecumseh later told Sir Isaac Brock, “We gave them forest clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women?  Rum and trinkets and a grave.”