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Grand Portage National Monument Two canoemen, knee deep in water, wet their birchbark canoe in Lake Superior before going for a paddle.
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Grand Portage National Monument
Operating Hours & Seasons

The Heritage Visitors Center is open year around, the Historic Depot (Great Hall, Kitchen, Canoe Warehouse, Ojibwe Village, Voyageur Encampment and Three Sisters and Kitchen Historic Heirloom Gardens) is open seasonally.  The schedule below will help you plan your visit to the Monument this year.



2012-2013


Summer

 Hours

Winter

Hours

Historic Depot includes: May 26 - Oct 8, 2012 Oct 11, 2011 -May 25, 2012

Stockade & Gatehouse

Great Hall & Kitchen

Canoe Warehouse

Ojibwe Village

Voyageur Encampment

Historic Gardens (Kitchen & Three Sisters)

 

Open Daily

9a.m.-5p.m.



Closed for Winter

Heritage Center (visitor center & headquarters)

May 26 -June 15, 2012

Oct 9, 2012-May 24, 2013

 Open Daily

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

 

Open Monday-Friday

8:30a.m.-4:30p.m.

 

June 16 - August 24, 2012

 

Open Daily

8:30a.m.-6p.m.


 

 


August 25 - Oct 8, 2012

 



Open Daily

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

 

 

Mount Rose Trail

Open Dawn-Dusk

Grand Portage Footpath

Open Dawn-Dusk


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 10, 11, & 12, 2012. View past activities during Rendezvous Days, please see the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 Rendezvous Days events in the link to Rendezvous Days on our homepage. The 2012 schedule will be posted once events are finalized usually around July 2012.


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

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A Montreal canoe at Grand Portage National Monument

Did You Know?
The 40 foot “Montreal” class of birchbark canoe used on the Great Lakes during the 18th century, could carry the weight of two mid-sized cars…that’s over four tons or about 8,000 pounds!

Last Updated: January 10, 2012 at 15:02 MST