Join the City of Chadron and surrounding communities for the 49th annual Fur Trade Days celebration July 10-13, 2025! Fur Trade Days was named the Northern Panhandle's Best Community Festival two years in a row - 2014 and 2015.

Big. Stage. Fundraiser.
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Fur Trade Days is a party. A time to gather with family, friends, former classmates and celebrate the Chadron community’s past, present, and future. In the last handful of years, awesome live music has been a cornerstone of that party and it’s high time for an upgrade!

Entertainment!
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Fur Trade Days is excited to bring you great entertainment downtown.

Buckskinner's Camp
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The Bordeaux Creek Fur Trade and Muzzleloading Association’s Rendezvous, located 3.5 miles east and 8 miles south of Chadron, is expected to open Thursday, July 11, for camp setup.

For more information, contact Norman Martin at (308)432-3474 or [email protected]. For online updates, check out the https://www.facebook.com/BCFTMLA/.

Visitors
The camp is always open to the public, but Friday, July 12, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., is the best time to catch the major activities. Enjoy muzzleloading shoots, tomahawk and knife throwing contests, archery, and plenty of carousing afterward. Check out the fur, handicrafts, bead work and other period items offered for sale by traders.

Primitive Camp
Located in rugged scenic Pine Ridge, good spring provides drinking water.

If you'd like to burn neatly cut and split hardwood, bring your own: There's naturally downed wood you can "scrounge" in the area, but the area is getting pretty well cleaned-up.

Camp-site will be open July 11-14th.

Camps and participants should depict those of the era 1800 to 1840 or thereabouts.

Vehicles in camp: one time in to set up; one time in to pack out, please

No blue jeans. (Tan trousers/corduroys acceptable)

All modern gear — coolers, clothing, etc. out of sight.

Beverages drunk from old style containers.

Fees
$25.00 - Lodge fee - per family
No additional fee will be charged for Traders

Schedule

Sunday, July 13, 2025

All Day - Buckskinners primitive camp, open to visitors (3 Miles East, ~8 miles south from Museum of the Fur Trade)

12:30 p.m. - Lions Club Horseshoe Tournament (North Main Street and Belle Fourche Avenue)