• Photo by: Max Kandler

    Fort Davis

    National Historic Site Texas

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  • Museum Closure

    Our park museum will be closed April 15, 2013 till 2014. This will also affect our park orientation film screening; it will be limited to 8-10 visitors at a time. The rest of the park is open for visitation. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Special Events

A periodic small arms demonstratin at Fort Davis.

Living History Small Arms Demo.

 

Fee Free Days 2013:
January 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
April 22-26 National Park Week
August 25 National Park Service Birthday
September 28 National Public Lands Day
November 9-11 Veterans Day Weekend

PARK CLOSED: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Coming Events 2013

-Summer Junior Ranger Days: June 10, 18 and 26; July 4, 19 and 27; August 2! See our flier in MS Word or PDF.

-Independence Day Weekend Activities! We will march in the town parade, have living history and artillery demonstrations. View the Fort Davis Chamber of Commerce Flier HERE!

-Columbus Day Weekend (Saturday, October 12th) Evening Tours

Check back for more!

Did You Know?

Small arms demonstration Fort Davis NHS.

To Apaches and Comanches, the stagecoaches on the San Antonio-El Paso Road were inviting prey.  They carried fewer defenders than most freight trains and made their way across Texas with predictable regularity.