Frontier Military Days

Step Back in Time at Frontier Military Days
📅 June 28–29 | 🕛 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM Daily
📍 Guardhouse Interpretive Center Lawn, Fort Stevenson State Park

Travel back to the 1870s and experience life at a frontier military fort during Frontier Military Days! Explore a fully equipped military encampment featuring authentic tents, period gear, and live demonstrations of tomahawk throwing, black powder gun firing, and the frontier trader lifestyle.

📣 Don’t Miss:

Cannon firings at 12:00 PM and 3:30 PM each day

Hands-on skills and crafts from the Indian Wars era

Living history interpreters sharing stories of fort life

While you’re here, be sure to visit the Guardhouse Interpretive Center, home to exhibits and artifacts from military life in the Dakota Territory.

This event is free to attend, with a $7 vehicle entrance fee unless you have a North Dakota State Parks annual pass.

Proudly sponsored by the Fort Stevenson Foundation, the volunteer group behind the reconstruction of the original guardhouse.

You may also like the following events from Fort Stevenson State Park:

• Next Saturday, 28th June, 12:00 pm, Stick Horse Rodeo in Garrison