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Fort Union Trading Post is currently open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time. On Monday, May 29, Fort Union will begin its summer hours. Summer hours are 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. These hours will be in effect from Memorial Day to the end of Labor Day on September 4, 2017. Fort Union’s Trade House will be open during the summer and feature on-site living history interpreters who will share the park’s history. Special events are scheduled for the summer as well, so stop in at the visitor’s center to ge...
Loren Yellowbird was recently honored for contributing to the growth of the state’s travel and tourism industry. Loren Yellowbird is a National Park Service ranger and an Arikara historian at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site since 2000. He works daily with the public to interpret the history of the trading post, at which his ancestors traded goods more than a century ago. As a historian, he manages the site bookstore, interprets the fort’s story and shares Native American culture with visitors. One of his best qualities is his...
Williston, ND, April 12, 2017: North Star Caviar regrets to announce the plant closure for the 2017 season. The change in the caviar market price and supply in 2016 due to the Chinese farm raised product flooding the market has critically affected North Star Caviar operations. This past year, North Star Caviar experienced a drastic decrease in the sale of its well-known paddlefish caviar from the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri River. As a non-profit joint venture, North Star Caviar relies on the sale of its caviar each year in...
On September 4th, Fort Union will transition to new winter hours of 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Central Time). The site is open daily throughout winter except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s holidays. These hours will be in effect until Memorial Weekend, 2017. During winter, visitors are invited to explore the Bourgeois House Visitor Center featuring a staffed information desk, exhibits, and park videos. Exhibits include artifacts recovered during the extensive archaeological excavations that made the fort’s reconstruction possible. Park...
Find your park and help Fort Union Trading Post celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th Birthday. Free hands on activities for kids, Jr Ranger and Trader programs and birthday cake will be featured each day. When: Thursday, August 25th 2:00 -5:00 Central Time Saturday, August 27th 2-5:00 Central Time August 25, 2016 is the 100th Birthday of the U.S. National Park Service. President Woodrow Wilson signed the NPS Organic Act on August 25, 1916 establishing the National Park Service as an agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior. Today...
The Alexander Settlers Museum on the Lewis and Clark Trail, formerly known as the Lewis and Clark Trail Museum, is excited to announce programming at the museum every weekend through Labor Day. Melissa Teel-Hartman will be offering readings in North Dakota for the first time ever on July 22 and 23. Melissa, who works out of Spearfish, South Dakota, will provide guideposts for soul-inspired healing during her sessions. Private sessions are available both Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23 for those interested in meeting with Melissa one-on-on...
Be sure and visit Fairview, MT for their Old Timer’s Reunion and Summer Festival July 15th, 16th, and 17th. Buttons honoring Dick Shannon will be available for $2.00 Friday and Saturday in Sharbono Park where visitors can sign in, and spend some time visiting. Those with a festival button will get free admittance to Ft. Union and Fort Buford all three days, and lunch in the park on Saturday. Stop by the park from 5:00pm until 7:00pm for the registration of Old Timers and have hamburgers with t...
Some of Montana's earliest recorded history played out on the eastern fringes of our state. Through Fort Union, this "Confluence Country" held supremacy over the fur trade business of the Upper Missouri from about 1830 until the 1850s. On April 27, 1805, the Corps of Discovery, after having spent a few days at the joining of the two rivers, (just across the state line in North Dakota), first entered what would become Montana Territory. Meriwether Lewis noted in the expedition journals ... "we sa...
This year’s Fort Union Rendezvous takes place, June 16-19. Headlining the event is Dr. Daniel Patterson. Patterson is a scholar of early American natural history and nature writing and professor of English at Central Michigan University. Patterson’s presentations will be at 2 p.m each day, Friday through Sunday, he will present; “Oh that we had more guns!”: John James Audubon’s Missouri River Journals and His Hidden Conservation Ethic.” In addition there will be a featured speaker sponsored by the Montana Humanities Council, Kristi Hager. She...
The MonDak Heritage Center will be saying farewell to their Executive Director, Kim Simmonds, on June 17; Simmonds has been a part of the Heritage Center for nearly two years, having moved to Sidney with her husband's job in the oilfield. "I've learned a lot in the time I've been here," she commented. "I was able to bring changes to the MonDak Heritage Center, and I'm excited to see how the organization continues to grow in the future. I'm leaving it in good hands with Jessica Newman. She's the...
In 1964, a group of eighth graders, led by their social sciences teacher, Bill Burnison, set out to create a model of historic Fort Union. It served as their contribution to the Fort Union Days Centennial Celebration, which took place June 11-13 that year in Sidney. Starting in February, six students worked on the model. They started out by visiting the site where Fort Union had stood to study the terrain, and they gathered sandstone and cedar from nearby badlands. Construction took place in the junior high shop. The gathered sandstone and...
FORT UNION TRADING POST NHS, ND – Fort Union announces the results of the Expanded Park Housing/Utilities Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA). “This plan analyzed two action alternatives,” said park superintendent Andy Banta. “The proposed alternatives focused on the immediate need for housing park employees.” The EA resulted in the selection of a preferred alternative that: Has no significant environmental impact on site resources, best address the needs of expanded park housing, and most economical and environmentally friendly option. T...
Are you interested in learning the art of bead working? Come join us as the MonDak Heritage Center’s Education Coordinator Jessica Newman introduces participants to the basics of loom beading. To participate, no prior experience is necessary and you will go home with your very own handmade bracelet and a new set of skills! The class will begin at 3:00 p.m. CT Saturday, March 19, at Fort Union Trading Post NHS, 15550 Highway 1804. This free class is being offered in partnership with Sidney, Montana’s MonDak Heritage Center. Preregistration is re...
Fort Union is soliciting comments on the Expanded Park Housing/Utilities Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA). The EA documents the results of this plan and the potential environmental impacts associated with the preferred alternative. The comment period runs through Jan. 11, 2016. The purpose for the Expanded Housing/Utilities Plan is to address critical shortage of employee housing that meets current NPS housing standards; increase the housing capacity of the park to adequate number of bedrooms as identified by the Housing Needs...
Fort Union is soliciting comments on the Expanded Park Housing/Utilities Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA). The EA documents the results of this plan and the potential environmental impacts associated with the preferred alternative. The comment period runs through Jan. 11, 2016. The purpose for the Expanded Housing/Utilities Plan is to address critical shortage of employee housing that meets current NPS housing standards; increase the housing capacity of the park to adequate number of bedrooms as identified by the Housing Needs...
Agates are another lower Yellowstone River attraction. Millions of years ago, volcanoes ruled Montana east of the mountains. Powerful eruptions of molten lava and ash covered and destroyed hundreds of miles of forests. After centuries of activity, the climate cooled and rain washed silica and minerals from the surface of the land down into the labyrinths of hardened lava beds, filling the nooks and crannies with what several eons later would become Montana agates. In those unstable geologic...
On Sept 6, Fort Union will transition from summer hours to winter hours. Winter hours are 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. CT. These hours will be in effect from Sept. 6 until Memorial Weekend 2016. The park is open from 8 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. daily except winter holidays. Fort Union Trading Post is located 24 miles north of Sidney and 25 miles SW of Williston via highway 1804. While here, visitors are encouraged to tour the reconstructed fort, trade room and bourgeois house. Fort Union is free of charge to visit. Stop in at the visitor’s center to get the lat...
National President to the Ladies Auxiliary of Foreign Wars (VFW), Francisca Guilford, will be visiting Sidney, Tuesday, Aug. 18 through Thursday, Aug. 20. Guilford is a Life Member of Gen. John R. Noyes Auxiliary #9978 in Anchorage, AK and has been since 1989, joining on the membership of her late husband who served in Vietnam. Guilford was elected National President during the 102nd National Convention on July 22, 2015. For the 2015-2016 year, Guilford will lead under the theme “Our V...
Traditional Native American music, dancing, and culture are part of this year’s 24th annual Indian Arts Showcase at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. This special event will take place the weekend of August 1 & 2, on Saturday and Sunday from 10 am - 5 pm each day. This event is free. “The Indian Arts Showcase is one of our events that highlight the history and culture of the Northern plains tribes. We include presentations, music, traditional crafts to help connect the visitors with this rich culture.” Says Ranger Yellow Bird. Spe...
"Calling all runners and walkers!" You are encouraged and welcomed to participate in the 24th Annual Fort Union Rendezvous Run. The race will be held at Fort Union Trading Post in conjunction with the annual Fort Union Fur Trader's Rendezvous. Competition is open to all levels of ability. Fun runners are welcome! Fort Union is located approximately 26 miles southwest of Williston, ND on Highway 1804. The Fort overlooks the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, the route of the Lewis...
FORT BUFORD—The public is invited to these free upcoming events at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center and Fort Buford State Historic Site. June 18 Fort Buford History Book Club, 7 p.m. CDT. Join history buffs in a discussion of this month’s selected book “Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson,” by Lois Simmie. Free refreshments. Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center. Please call in advance. June 19-20 Confluence Quilters, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CDT. Join the Confluence Quilters for their monthly meeting at the Conflue...
Fort Union Trading Post is currently open every day from 9:00am to 5:30pm Central Daylight Time. On Saturday, May 23, Fort Union will change from the winter hours to our summer hours. These hours will be from 8:00 am – 6:30 pm (Central Time). These hours will be in effect from Memorial Day to the end of Labor Day on September 6, 2015. Fort Union’s Trade House will be open every day during the summer hours with living history interpreters on site interpreting the history. Our special events are scheduled for the summer as well, so stop in at...
Williston area residents convinced Congress to create a nation’s park nearly 50 years ago. And to celebrate that accomplishment and the MonDak region’s inspiration for “America’s Best Idea,” its national parks, the National Park Service seeks community input. To share your thoughts and ideas for how the National Park Service could celebrate Fort Union Trading Post’s 50th anniversary in 2016, join the park’s staff for a public meeting at the Williston Public Library. The meeting will be Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. “The park exists because...
On September 2, Fort Union will transition from summer hours to fall hours. These hours will be from 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Central Time). These hours will be in effect September 2 and go to the beginning of Memorial weekend, 2015. Fort union’s Trade House will be open every day throughout most of September with living history interpreters. Stop on at the visitor’s center to get the latest updates on our changes or any upcoming events, or visit our website at www.nps.gov/fous or on Facebook. Fort Union is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CDT d...
Looking for a fun and free outdoor activity? Come visit Fort Union Trading Post and take a guided hike with one of our Park Rangers! On July 19, 2014, 1:00pmCST, at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, 15550 N Dakota 1804, Williston, ND 58801. Meet at the Bourgeois House Visitor center. Hike will start at the north entrance of Fort Union. The guided tour will take a little over an hour and the ranger will discuss the history of Fort Union, the natural features and ecosystems of the area. You will want to bring the following; bug...
