• A fall day on Mt. Rose overlooking the historic depot at Grand Portage.

    Grand Portage

    National Monument Minnesota

For Kids

Junior Rangers ready to go!
Junior Rangers ready to go!
NPS Photo / Mike Plummer-Steen
 
  • Visiting Grand Portage National Monument this summer? Become a Junior Ranger. In 2010, 432 young people became Grand Portage Junior Rangers (Up from 345 in 2009). A new and improved Junior Ranger Booklet is being tested at Grand Portage. We welcome you to come and help test it out!
 
Junior Ranger Family at Grand Portage National Monument
The Junior Ranger program at Grand Portage National Monument is a familiy activity
NPS Photo / Mike Plummer-Steen

Did You Know?

Drawing by C.W. Jefferys of David Thompson in Athabaska Pass 1810.

The great geographer David Thompson mapped most of Canada and the northern U.S. west of Grand Portage (1794-1821) a tribute to the exploratory achievements of the Nor’westers.