Learn About the Park

Visitors learn about canoes and historic building trades in the Warehouse.

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With a spectacular setting next to Lake Superior, Grand Portage National Monument* is rich in natural and cultural history. The Park protects two depots of the North West Company – the main depot on Lake Superior and the site of Fort Charlotte on the Pigeon River. The eight-and-a-half mile Grand Portage trail connects the depots and contains most of the acreage of the Monument. From before the fur trade to the present, the Anishinaabe people, historians, and archaeologists have protected the artifacts, history, and cultural and natural heritage of Gitchi Onigamiing, the Great Carrying Place called Grand Portage.

* A national monument is intended to preserve at least one nationally significant resource.