On Saturday, May 25, Fort Union will extend operating hours to 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (Central Time). These hours will be in effect from Memorial Weekend to the end of Labor Day on September 2, 2013. Fort Union’s Trade House will be open every day during the summer hours with living history interpreters on site sharing the park story. The summer special event schedule is as follows:
June 13-16, Fort Union Rendezvous; Thursday 6/13, Kids Day; Saturday 6/15, Rendezvous Run; August 3-4, Indian Arts Showcase; August 31-September 2, Living History Weekend; Saturday 8/31, Last Bell Tours begin at 8 p.m. Central Time; September 21, Blacksmith Workshop.
Stop in at the visitor’s center to get the latest updates on these events, or visit our website at http://www.nps.gov/fous or on Facebook, the site is free of charge.
Fort Union Trading Post is located 24 miles north of Sidney, Montana and 25 miles southwest of Williston, North Dakota, via highway 1804. While here, visitors are encouraged to tour the reconstructed fort, trade room and bourgeois house. Our visitor center hosts short video programs and an extensive bookstore.
For more information on Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, contact us at 701-572-9083.
From 1828-1867 Fort Union was the most important fur trading post on the Upper Missouri. Here, seven Northern Plains Indian Tribes, including the Assiniboine, Crow, Blackfeet, Cree, Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, Lakota and Dakota, traded buffalo robes and other furs for goods such as cloth, guns, blankets and beads. This fort was a bastion of peaceful coexistence, annually trading over 25,000 buffalo robes and $100,000 of merchandise.
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