About the Heritage Program

Celebrating History Through The Fort Heritage Program

The Fort Restaurant is a full-scale replica of Bent’s Old Fort, an 1830s Fur Trading post that operated on the Santa Fe Trail. We are the largest adobe building in the nation and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For 62 years The Fort has offered programming to educate the public about Western history and the many cultures that traded at Bent’s Fort in the nineteenth century. The Fort will continue this tradition through The Fort Heritage Program which will focus on:

Dinner and Lunch Historic Lecture Series

Storytelling and Presentations

Native American Beading Workshops

Cultural Dinners 

Artist Showcase

School Programs, and more.

303-839-1671