Happenings Around the Fort
ATTENTION! Weber County has closed Fort Buenaventura until further notice due to danger from high water and downed trees. The primitive area has standing water and the river is close to overflowing its banks.
FORT BUENAVENTURA
Located on an 84-acre river tract of land near the Weber River, the fort symbolizes a period of western history that was the transition from nomadic ways of the Indian tribes and trappers to the first permanent settlers in the Great Basin. Facilities at the fort include picnic areas, a canoeing pond, the replica fort including three cabins and restrooms.
THE FUR TRADE ERA
The names such as Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, Jedidiah Smith, Etienne Provost, and Hugh Glass, bring to mind strong, independent and rugged men who fearlessly lived in the Rocky Mountains. There they traded with the Indian tribes, married the Indian women, trapped the rivers for beaver, and lived off the land. The legendary rendezvous, where mountain men gathered annually to trade furs for supplies and to eat, drink, and tell stories and demonstrate their skills, have become as famous as the men themselves.
Come join us around the campfire. Who knows what pre-1840’s skill you’ll learn today.