One phase of the 2015 Cherokee bike ride will be through southern Missouri, along the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears. Remember the Removal ride is an annual event where Cherokee youth retrace, by bike, nearly 1,000 miles of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail from Georgia to Oklahoma. The team begins their journey near New Echota, Ga., on June 7.
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The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the United States government’s forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their traditional homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in 1838 and 1839.
Over 600 miles of the trail stretch across 26 counties in southern Missouri, and include three separate routes: the Northern Route, the Hildebrand Route, and the Benge Route. Seven new wayside exhibits will be unveiled June 19 in Laughlin Park at Roubidoux Springs. The park is the site of a historic Cherokee removal campsite.