Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation

History buff checking in here. I LOVED IT.
vehicles are $ 5/​day (or you can take the trolley from Mandan) and our camping was $ 12/​site/​night for up to 6 people.
The tours were $ 6/​adult and you get TWO tours! One of the Mandan Village with access to a «home» that has some really cool artifacts that you don’t get to see without the pass. The other is the back in time tour of Custers House. Once you enter the house you are back to 1865 and its great for all ages.
We did «primitive» camping (ie — tents) on a weekend with a TON of rain… no surprise so we were prepared. Even WITH the rain for the better part of the weekend we still had a great time here. There was a playground for the kids, trails, stables, fishing, all the things you associate with a state park… it was GREAT.
we had a group of 8 and there was always something enjoyable for all of us to do. We’ll be going back next month for another fun weekend. :-)

For a history buff like me, visiting Ft. Abraham Lincoln was a real treat.
This was the last post of the Seventh Cavalry before it rode out with General George Armstrong Custer to meet immortality at the Little Big Horn River in Montana.
The park shows the foundations of the officer’s houses lined up along the parade ground. The Custer house has been reconstructed and is furnished with period antiques, some of which came from the Custer family. It is a surprisingly large house with 12 foot ceilings on both the first and second floors. Visitors can see where Custer entertained his fellow officers, visit the kitchen, the servants’ bedrooms, the family’s bedrooms and Custer’s office.
Across the 150 yard wide parade ground — a grassy flat area — is a reproduction of the enlisted men’s quarters. There are two wings that extended off a central kitchen/​mess hall/​company office. Both wings are set up with beds, trunks, rifle racks, stoves, etc. In one wing, the trunk at the foot of each bed is propped open and a sign identifies the name the soldier who might have lived there and a short biography of him. Most were about 5’6″ to 5’8″ in height and Irish. Some did not die fighting the Sioux at the Little Big Horn and the biographies tell about what they were doing on that fateful day in 1876.
To visit a piece of national myth and legend or even camp over night, stop by Ft. Abraham Lincoln just outside of Mandan, ND.