Recreation
Fort Lincoln Park offers living history tours of the Custer House every half hour. The tour is roughly thirty minutes long and takes you back to the year 1875 when Custer and his wife were living at Fort Abraham Lincoln. The guides are dressed either as laundresses or soldiers from 1875. Interpretive tours of On-A-Slant Village and the earthlodges, in which the guides give a basic introduction to Mandan culture, are also offered every half hour and are also about thirty minutes long. Along with the tours, there is an historical museum about On-A-Slant Village, Fort Abraham Lincoln, and Fort Lincoln State Park. Visitors are welcome to walk through the cavalry barracks, the stables, and the blockhouses. A giftshop and coffeeshop has been built in the re-constructed commissary storehouse. During the summers, melodramas, including ones originally performed at Fort Lincoln in the 1870s, are performed by the guides in the re-built granary. The park also has 95 campsites, two sleeping cabins, and picnic shelters. Horseback tours, hiking, fishing, and playgrounds are also located on the 1,006 acres (4 km2) of Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park.
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Famous quotes containing the word recreation:
“Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.”
—Archbishop Luigi Barito (b. 1922)
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—Angela Davis (b. 1944)