Grand Portage National Monument

Great Historical Site to Show and Explain Why Grand Portage was Important

For the first 50 years of our country's existence, this may have been the most valuable piece of property in the US. How can this be when there is almost as little development there now as there was ...

Great experience, learned alot

Stockade with Northwest Fur Trading buildings from late 1700's had two docents in period costume when we visited. One told about the Voyagers and the woman in the Great Hall was very knowledgeable abo...

Worth the Drive!

Worth driving all the way up the North Shore for! Definitely a highlight of our trip. All of the exhibits are extremely well done and the staff were all so passionate about showing us around. We didn’...

Stop in conjunction with the similarly named State Park!

This stop should be on every list for Minnesota's Lake Superior North Shore. Wonderful informative staff. Excellent exhibits and explanatory videos. Rebuilding the Stockade and buildings is underwa...

Do not pass this by

Absolutely incredible! The Heritage Center had great artifacts from the area (be sure to look in the drawers) and gave a great background on the people prior to our own exploration. The "guides" in ...