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Grand Portage National MonumentAn interpreter in voyageur dress prepares to fire a black powder musket as visitors listen.
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Grand Portage National Monument
Operating Hours & Seasons
 

2008

Summer Hours Winter Hours
Historic Depot: includes May 24-Oct 13 Oct 14-May 23
Great Hall, Kitchen, Canoe Warehouse, Ojibwe Village & Voyageur Encampment

Open Daily      9a.m.-5p.m.

Closed for the Season
May 24-June 20 Oct 14-May 23

Open Daily 8:30a.m.-5p.m.

Open Monday-Friday  8:30a.m.-4:30p.m.
Heritage (Visitors) Center June 21-Sept 1 Oct 14-May 23
Open Daily 8:30a.m.-6p.m. Open Monday-Friday 8:30a.m.-4:30p.m.
Sept 2-Oct 13 Oct 14-May 23
Open Daily 8:30a.m.-5p.m. Open Monday-Friday 8:30a.m.-4:30p.m.
Mount Rose Trail

Open Dawn-Dusk

The Grand Portage Footpath

Open Dawn-Dusk


MEA (Minnesota Education Association) weekend: Open Saturday and Sunday (October 25 & 26, 2008)

The annual Rendezvous Days and Pow Wow, the height of the season at Grand Portage National Monument, is always the second full weekend of August. Rendezvous Days this year will be August 8, 9 & 10, 2008. To see past activities during Rendezvous Days, please see the 2005, 2006 & 2007 Rendezvous Days events in the link to Rendezvous Days on our homepage. The 2008 schedule will be posted once events are finalized around July 2008.

If you have any further questions, please e-mail us.

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

Did You Know?
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.
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Last Updated: February 15, 2008 at 14:42 EST