Fort Scott National Historic Site
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Hours
Fort Scott National Historic Site
| Every day | Sunrise to Sunset |
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Park Visitor Center and historic building hours listed under 'Visitor Centers.'
Visitors may walk the park grounds, walkways, and parking lot from ½ hour before sunrise until ½ hour after sunset, except during periods of snow, ice, or other inclement weather conditions that make the grounds unsafe.
Visitor centers
Visitor Center
Visitor Center
| Monday – Tuesday | 8:30AM - 4:30PM |
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| Wednesday – Thursday | Closed |
| Friday – Sunday | 8:30AM - 4:30PM |
Coming up:
- Nov 26: Thanksgiving (closed)
The Visitor Center (VC) is in the Post Hospital. Inside the VC is our bookstore, passport cancellation station, Junior Ranger books, and where most site tours begin.
About this park
Promises made and broken! Who deserves to be free? The fight for freedom! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-1873. All of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.