Fort Vasquez Museum

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13412 US Highway 85
Platteville, CO 80651

History

Fur Trading fort doing business with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal people. Now a museum.

Specialties

Living history program on Saturdays in Summer; shoot a musket, throw hatchets, and make an adobe brick. Historic Skills workshops twice a month: beadwork, native moccasins, historic cooking classes. AMAZING gift shop with unique books, native jewelry, and historic replicas. Small revitalized gallery with frontier history of Colorado's fur trading and pioneering heritage.

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4.04 reviews
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Stacie G.
7/17/2017

Blink and you'll miss it. The site of Fort Vasquez, an 1835 fur-trading fort, founded by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette, is literally sitting right smack in the middle of the highway. It's an...

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Jill M.
5/17/2018

This is Colorado history and my family history. It's free! The French-Spanish mountain man, Pierre "Louis" Vasquez, opened this trading post in 1885.

Tammy B.
5/22/2018

My daughter and I could not recommend this experience more!! I homeschool my 12 year old daughter and we have been studying Colorado history. We called and made an appointment for a private tour...

Kathy S.
6/20/2019

This fort is a joke. We have been to many forts and historical sites and never experienced anything so poorly done. The walls are not true to size and there are no actual rooms, just a wall. The...

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