Free Get Outdoors Day on June 9 at Fort

Free family-friendly activities will be the focus of National Get Outdoors Day on  June 9.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver.

Visitors will be able to climb a rock wall, meet live birds of prey, catch a fish from a pond and participate in activities that include obstacle courses, soccer, archery and crosscut sawing.

National Get Outdoors Day is a national event that encourages people, especially youth, to stay healthy and experience the outdoors at parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters.

A historic fur trade encampment will reflect life at Fort Vancouver during the 1840s. It re-enacts the return of Hudson’s Bay Company fur brigades to Fort Vancouver.

Costumed re-enactors will demonstrate cooking, crafts, games, dances and music of the 1840s.

There also will be hands-on activities and black powder demonstrations of replica 1840s weaponry.

The event will be along East Fifth Street, near Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E. Fifth St.

For information about Get Outdoors Day, visit: https://tinyurl.com/getoutdoorsvancouver.