(July 2011) Enlarge Visitor Center
 
William J. Bechmann III photo

(July 2011) Enlarge Visitor Center
 
William J. Bechmann III photo

(July 2011) Enlarge Visitor Center
 
William J. Bechmann III photo

(March 1999) Pea Ridge from the Visitor Center. Old Telegraph Road at center of photo, East Overlook on high ground at right
 
Panorama looking north from Visitor Center 1 (July 26, 2002)
 
Touring the Park: After stopping at the Visitor Center, follow the arrows from the parking area to the Old Telegraph Road. Built in 1828 between Springfield, Mo., and Fayetteville, Ark., the road was part of the Trail of Tears that saw thousands of Cherokees and other American Indians forcibly relocated from their homes in Georgia and the Carolinas to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. In 1858, the road became part of the Butterfield Overland Mail route to California. In 1860, a telegraph wire was strung along it