Fort Vancouver National Historic Site - Vancouver (WA)

5 /5 D K: Lovely national historical site right across the river from Portland and off the Columbia River. There’s a self guided tour where you can walk in the old buildings of the fort. Next door is an air museum and there is a house where Ulysses Grant lived.

5 /5 Andy Smith: If you are visiting Fort Vancouver, the whole site is worth visiting, including the visitor center and Pearson Air Museum. If you do everything you can spend half a day here. But sticking with the fort. It has a really nice garden and great reconstructions of everything from the forge to the kitchens. My favourite was the Indian trade shop, where the guys doing the demonstrations not only really knew their history, but really looked the part – see the pictures. Fort Vancouver reconstruction is itself an amazing place to visit and gives are real sense of what it was like to live in the past. I would definitely recommend a visit here and its only 5 minutes off the I-5 so easy to visit if you are passing by.

5 /5 Chad Dennis: Awesome fort! The area is amazing to sit and have a nice picnic. The staff at fort Vancouver were extremely nice. Cant wait to bring my family down.

5 /5 Brian Cho: This was such an interesting NHS to visit. There is a small admission fee but the overall outdoor and indoor grounds are fascinating. It’s intersting to see the blacksmith at work and talking about some of the pieces used and created. Well worth a visit if you enjoy history and have NP passport.

4 /5 Craig Bellavance: I spent an enjoyable and educational two hours strolling through the fort’s buildings and gardens. “Workers” in the kitchen, blacksmith shop, and carpenter shop were practicing their crafts but were not too busy to chat about life in the fort in the 19th century. Fruit and vegetables grown on site today seem to indicate that the soldiers, workers, and their families ate well two centuries ago. And, with grapes and hops also growing at the fort, they got their beverages too.