Grand Portage National Monument — Mile Creek Road
Grand Portage, MN Hours and Location

170 Mile Creek Road
Grand Portage, MN   55605Driving Directions
Phone: (218)475-0123(218)475-0123 Maps & Directions

https://www.nps.gov/grpo/planyou...

National Monument

Operating Hours & Seasons

Grand Portage National Monument

Heritage Visitor Center: Summer hours: Daily 8:30am - 5:00pm CDT - Memorial weekend through Columbus (Indigenous People's) Day. Winter hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm CST - Columbus (Indigenous People's) Day through.Memorial Weekend. Historic Depot Open Seasonally: Daily 9:00am - 5.00pm CST Memorial weekend through Columbus (Indigenous People's) Day. Park Grounds and trails are open daily from sunrise to sunset.

Standard Hours

• Sunday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Monday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Tuesday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Wednesday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Thursday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Friday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM
• Saturday:12:00 AM-12:00 AM

Fees & Passes

Entrance Fees:

• $0.00 - Grand Portage National Monument is fee free.
  Grand Portage National Monument is fee free. This includes visiting the heritage (visitor) center and the historic depot (great hall, kitchen, canoe warehouse, gatehouse, stockade and picnic grounds. Camping at Fort Charlotte requires a free camping reservation for the two back country campsites. To preserve the campsites, no more than nine campers may occupy a campsite at one time.

About

Live History. Celebrate Heritage.

Travel into the past to discover the present. Explore the partnership of the Grand Portage Ojibwe and the North West Company during the North American fur trade and the NPS today. Follow pathways into a distant time. Experience the sights and smells of a bustling depot reconstructed in its exact location. Hear the beat of the drum echo over Gichigami - Lake Superior.

Directions

Traveling northeast or southwest on MN Hwy 61 visitors will see signs alerting the approach to Grand Portage National Monument. A right turn exit lane or left turn from Hwy 61 at the Grand Portage Trading Post will take visitors onto Casino Road. Turn left at the first stop sign from Casino Road to Mile Creek Road. About 3/4 mile on Mile Creek Road, look for a large wooden entrance sign on your left. Turn left up the short hill into the Heritage Center parking lot.

Visitor Centers

Heritage Center/Headquarters

The Heritage Center includes two floors of exhibits, a classroom where a feature film is shown, an Eastern National bookstore, artwork murals by Carl Gawboy, David Gilsvik, David Geister, Howard Sivertson and Eastman Johnson and images of Grand Portage by photographer Travis Novitsky. The second floor is park headquarters.

Weather

Short, warm summers and long, cold winters define the climate of northern Minnesota. Average range of summer temperature is from 55°F to 78°F in July and average range of winter temperatures is from –11°F to 12°F in January. Average annual precipitation in Grand Portage, MN is about 32 inches.

Permits and Reservations Information