Winter Rendezvous at Fort de Chartres

Saturday & Sunday, November 1 & 2, 2025
Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous
Saturday, November 1, 10 AM-5 PM
Sunday, November 2, 10 AM-3PM


This event features 18th and early 19th century camp life and re-enactors who participate in a muzzleloader woods walk
shooting competition. Fort de Chartres State Historic Site presents a weekend of colorful clothing, hand-made crafts, period music and delicious food when the annual Winter Rendezvous returns November 1 & 2.

Soldiers, trappers, traders and Native Americans (as portrayed by historic re-enactors) will gather at the rendezvous.
They’ll trade goods, buy supplies, and some will take part in a shooting contest that requires them to walk through the
woods and fire flintlocks at pop-up targets.
The rendezvous is fun both for the participants demonstrating frontier life from 1700 to1820 and for visitors spending
an autumn day wandering among the tents, campfires, and historic French colonial fort.

@ Fort de Chartres State Historic Site, at 1350 IL Route 155, 4 miles west of Prairie du Rocher. The event is open and
free to the general public. For site information call (618) 284-7230 or for event information, email bGVzYW1pc2R1Zm9ydGRlY2hhcnRyZXMgfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==.

You may also like the following events from Les Amis du Fort de Chartres:

• Next month, 7th June, 10:00 am, 55th Annual Rendezvous at Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher
• This December, 31st December, 07:00 pm, La Guiannee New Year's Eve at Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher

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