Take a step back over 200 years in history to learn about the first businesses and commerce in the state of Minnesota. Travel through the replicated Northwest Company Fur Post trading site built by John Sawyer. Take a guided snowshoe hike in the winter searching for animals tracks and signs. Sit inside an Ojibwe wigwam and experience how the first people to Minnesota survived! Fur Post Field Trip info

Video on the Northwest Company Fur Post created by the Minnesota History Center.