The trade room, also called the "general store", carried merchandise that was traded to trappers and Indians, sold to travelers, and often "purchased" by fort employees as a credited deduction against wages and possesions. This vast quantity of merchandise, stockpiled here in the wilderness helped promote the economic prowess of the Bent & St. Vrain Company.

Historically this room was stocked with a large amount of merchandise: dry goods, clothing, shoes and boots, hardware, dried fruits and vegetables, paper and ink, saddles and harnesses, ammunition, soap, medicines, sundries and notions such as fish hooks, manilla rope, buttons, and thread and ribbon. Also, like its historic counterpart, this room is filled with bolts of calico, blankets, shirts, a nest of clay pipes, knives, hatchets, kettles, meat hooks, guns, yarn, needles, flint, coffee, chocolate, corn, beads, furs, and other goods.

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