Pitkin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Burl Cain, former warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, was reared in Pitkin.

[5] His older brother, James David, a former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, was born in Pitkin in 1938.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers built a military road from Niblett's Bluff to Alexandria that passed through the area.

[6] According to the 2010 census, of its 576 population who live in 230 households, their median age was 41.6, 541 are White, 10 are multiracial, 3 are Asian, 2 are some other race, 1 is African American; 10 have Latino ethnicity.