Pike Island (click the link to see the island) sits betwixt the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, directly to the east of Fort Snelling. During the US Civil War, some 1600 Dakota women, children and old men were imprisioned on Pike Island as part of the ongoing US-Dakota War. As pleasant as that location would be to visit, it looks like we're not getting there today without a boat. Posted off in the distance is a map of the trails of Fort Snelling State Park.