Texas Frontier Fort DaysMay 13-14, 2016

The 15th annual Texas Frontier Forts Days, held at the Historic Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, will take place on Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, 2016. During this free, two-day heritage event, the Stockyards National Historic District is transformed into an authentic representation of Texas frontier life.

The Texas Forts Days Celebration was created in 2001 to celebrate the heritage of Texas’s Frontier fort settlements, like Fort Worth, concentrating on the years from the early Republic in 1836 to the closing of the frontier and settlement of the late 1800s. The camps, soldiers, Native Americans, settlers, and weaponry all reflect the region’s vast expanses of open land, when most of Texas was unsettled and our big cities were generations in the future.

Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards will be lined with encampments of historic fort sites from the Texas Forts Trail and elsewhere in Texas. Approximately 10 forts and related programs will participate in the event. Designed to highlight frontier-era life, Frontier Forts Days brings together authentic wagons, flags, music, colorful uniforms and military gear from Texas landmarks.

Infantry, artillery and cavalry demonstrations, and military parades will fill the event schedule on Friday and Saturday.

For camp registration, contact Bob Bluthardt at (325) 481-2730 or director@fortconcho.com.

Download the Schedule of Events.