Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous - Prairie Du Rocher, IL

Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous
Saturday & Sunday, November 1 & 2, 2025 

Saturday, November 1, 10 AM-5 PM 
Sunday, November 2, 10 AM-3PM 

@ Fort de Chartres State Historic Site, at 1350 IL Route 155, 4 miles west of Prairie du Rocher. The event is open and  free to the general public. For site information call (618) 284-7230 or for event information, email  lesamisdufortdechartres@gmail.com. 

This event features 18^th and early 19^th century camp life and re-enactors who participate in a muzzleloader woods walk  shooting competition. 

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site presents a weekend of colorful clothing, hand-made crafts, period music and  delicious food when the annual Winter Rendezvous returns November 1 & 2. 

Soldiers, trappers, traders and Native Americans (as portrayed by historic re-enactors) will gather at the rendezvous.  They’ll trade goods, buy supplies, and some will take part in a shooting contest that requires them to walk through the  woods and fire flintlocks at pop-up targets.  

The rendezvous is fun both for the participants demonstrating frontier life from 1700 to1820 and for visitors spending  an autumn day wandering among the tents, campfires, and historic French colonial fort.  

https://fortdechartres.net/events/