Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
All-Weather Shelter Improvement
All-Weather Shelter Improvement
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National Monument
1948 National Historic Site 1961 Park Size 210 acres Annual Visitors 968,000 Park Fee $10 to visit fort, free to walk grounds Superintendent Tracy Fortmann Park Partner Friends of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Location Clark County, WA and Clackamas County, OR |
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site preserves the unique history of the fort’s origin as a fur trading station run by the Hudson Bay Company and its evolution into a military base, then a municipal air field that saw some of the world’s aviation “firsts.”
The park has a large picnic shelter and event space that hosts over 20,000 school children on field trips each year and is a popular local venue for community and family events. The Fund for People in Parks made a grant for the addition of large glass panels behind the sliding wooden doors that allows the building to be used more readily in bad weather. The grant also included funds to purchase a projector and screen for educational presentations, and new, accessible tables. The improvements were completed in the fall of 2019, and student groups and members of the public use the shelter regularly. Project Cost: $17,500 Project Completed: 2019 The park's picnic shelter is now a welcoming, safe space for educational groups and other members of the public, in all weathers! The picnic shelter is an extremely popular element of this urban National Park. The grant provided the momentum for additional improvements to the picnic shelter funded by the park, which made it even more welcoming." |
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