Fort Vancouver is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but will be closed December 24, 25 and 31. The fort will host two more lantern-lit tours in 2018, on the evenings of ...

Fireworks explode over the blacksmith shop inside Fort Vancouver during Independence Day at Fort Vancouver on Sunday. The celebration returned after a one-year absence. Fireworks at the Fort were ...

Stoking the fire at the blacksmith shop at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Lee Pisarek prepares to work with some hot iron. The disabled Army veteran, who suffers from PTSD, said his ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – It was a December night, around the mid-1800s from the look of it, in a cozy candlelit parlor. I was eavesdropping on a teatime conversation between James Douglas, Fort Van… ...

And Fort Vancouver is only a 45-minute drive from Kelso. ... “This shop has the best collection of blacksmith artifacts of any facility in the U.S.,” said John Prutsman, ...

Cannons at Fort Vancouver National Historical Site. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) The 30th version of Campfires and Candlelight, a signature community event of the National Park Service's Fort ...

In Vancouver, Wash., Fort Vancouver National Historic Site offers fall and winter tours by lantern to re-enact a typical night among the fur traders of the 1830s and '40s.

Fort Vancouver was established in 1825 as the headquarters for Britain’s Hudson’s Bay Company, an international conglomerate involved in the Northwest’s lucrative fur trade.