Old North Trail - Southern Tour

Event Details

The Old Trail Museum offers two different versions of the Old North Trail Tour. The northern version of the tour is more or less “Blackfeet-centric”, visiting tipi rings, buffalo jumps, eagle traps and a turtle effigy. The southern tour is more or less “Métis-centric”, visiting a Métis cemetery, Big Bear’s cabin, the site of a former Métis settlement in the canyon of the south fork of the Teton River. While these two tours differ in theme, there is certainly overlap on subject matter.

The Old North Trail is thought to have been the oldest and the longest trail in human history, tracing the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, from northern Canada all the way into Mexico. In pre-Colombian North America, the Old North Trail was used for travel, trade, following and hunting herds and was also the frequent venue for conflicts between tribes.

Indigenous peoples and wildlife, as everywhere, were closely intertwined, essentially all part of the same ecosystem. Here along the Rocky Mountain Front, the Old North Trail served as a human highway amidst this thin, natural corridor between the high prairie and the high mountains.

Start Time 7:00:00 AM