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February 2024 by Jonas Hanson
An exceptional experience all around! Absolutely must go here if you love history.
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February 2024 by Walt Middy
There's a bunch of great ruins here.
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February 2024 by Martin Cawthorne
A bit chilly in Feb, but still worth the visit. I like the Prarie grass plantings, the dioramas boards explaining the history and rebuilt authentic styled buildings.
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January 2024 by Out Standing in a field
Really nice park with a small museum. Lots of walking, so bring footwear for it.Beautiful area.
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October 2023 by Laura Betz
Very fun experience at living history weekend. I can't wait to come back and see their night time event!
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October 2023 by Eric Severson
5 stars just for historical value.5 stars for the staff and volunteers.In its short life (1819-1827) Fort Atkinson played a significant role in American history.Lewis and Clark wrote about this spot (Council bluffs) and suggested the area where the post was built. The fort was a peaceful fort and ended up being more of a frontier town of 2000+ people during its heyday. The fort has been reconstructed, and there is also a visitor's center that is a great place for families with children to come and visit to learn about early 19th century America on the frontier.It's also a great place to get away from the city and have a picnic.
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October 2023 by Pam Smith
We absolutely love the living history, they were fantastic. We took my grandson for his birthday and he really loved it!
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September 2023 by James Lundgren
Great historic site. Offer living history weekends one weekend a month six times a year.
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August 2023 by Deb DeBoer
I have volunteered at Fort Atkinson for 13 years now because I love it! I learn so much more about history by doing it! The living history reenactors, all volunteers, are so fun, engaging, and experts in their historical knowledge. Come out and join us! We will help provide outfits if you want to experience history first-hand. Living history weekends are the first weekend every month (or if the 1st day of the month is Sunday, it is that weekend) during the months of May through October. All for the cost of a Nebraska park pass, you will find blacksmiths, tinsmith, cooper, carpenters, military, cooks, lace-maker, spinners, weavers, quilters, surgeon, traders, Indian agent, fur trappers, long hunters, teachers, and sutlers selling 1820s period goods in the Sutler Store! And you can visit the newly remodeled Visitor Center!
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August 2023 by Joel Seppala
An exceptional experience all around! The dedicated, knowledgeable volunteers (only on the first weekend of the month, seasonally, including weekends where one month ends and the next begins (e.g., 31-1) and authentic-looking grounds offer visitors a near-firsthand look at frontier fort life. Parking and access are easy, but shade is scarce except inside the display rooms and under shade trees outside the fort.
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August 2023 by Erin Sweet
We did the 4th of July living history and this place did an amazing job. Absolutely must go here if you love history. It’s on par with colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown in Virginia.
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June 2023 by Ed Muck
This place is amazing. Be prepared to do a little hiking but its all worth it. Bring a water bottle!
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May 2023 by Nathan Newberg
Great experience and great demonstrations. Loved the military, nurse, weaver, and black smith. Getting better and expanding.
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May 2023 by Mark Phillips
This is a really cool historic place to go to. You'll learn a lot about the fort
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November 2022 by Ian Strait
The grounds were pretty cool problem was the front gate was not open at 8:00 like it was supposed to be so we had to walk in to the fort.
