Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Map

Description:
This map shows trails, benches, food service, bus stops, public parking lots, interpretive panel, restrooms, information, picnic areas, viewpoint, officers row, great meadow loop, east barracks loop, parade ground loop, hudsons bay company village, landbridge trail, discovery trail, spruce mill trail, lower river road, and waterfront road in Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

About Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site preserves and interprets the history of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department headquarters and the U.S. Army's Vancouver Barracks. Located in Vancouver, Washington, the site was established as a national monument in 1948 and redesignated as a national historic site in 1961.

The Hudson's Bay Company operated Fort Vancouver from 1825 to 1860 as the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for fur trading operations in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. John McLoughlin served as the fort's Chief Factor from 1825 to 1846. At its peak in the 1840s, the fort was a thriving multicultural community with residents from more than 34 ethnic groups.

The site features reconstructed buildings including the stockade, bastion, blacksmith shop, bakery, and chief factor's house based on archaeological evidence and historical records. Archaeological excavations conducted since the 1940s have uncovered over one million artifacts. The Pearson Air Museum, located within the site boundaries, preserves the history of Pearson Field, one of the oldest continuously operating airfields in the United States.

Vancouver Barracks, established in 1849, served as a U.S. Army post until 2011. Officers' Row, a collection of 21 Victorian-era homes built between 1849 and 1906, remains preserved along the parade ground. The site receives approximately 300,000 visitors annually and is managed by the National Park Service. In 2012, Fort Vancouver was designated as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.