Indoor Activities

The Fort Necessity National Battlefield/National Road Heritage Corridor Interpretive and Education Center is the main visitor center for Fort Necessity. It tells the story of the opening years of the French and Indian War. The story of The National Road, America's first federally funded highway is also told here through a partnership with Pennsylvania's National Road Heritage Corridor.

The twenty-minute orientation film Road of Necessity takes viewer along the path from Washington's first trip over the Alleghenies to the creation of the National Road.

The Mount Washington Tavern was a tavern along the National Road. It is now open seasonally as a museum. The furnished rooms and interpretive signs tell the story of this historic building.