VA to host Freedom 250 veteran fair at Women's Park in Helena

Veterans in Lewis and Clark County will have a free chance to walk into Women’s Park in Helena and connect with Montana VA Health Care resources, with live music, food trucks and resource tables built around a short Freedom 250 ceremony. The June 26 gathering is meant to do more than mark America’s 250th anniversary; it puts VA health information in front of the people who may need it most.

The Montana VA Health Care System says the 250th Birthday Freedom Celebration and Veteran Resource Fair will run Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mountain Time, with a short ceremony at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public at Women’s Park, 500 Fuller Ave., Helena, MT 59601.

For veterans trying to find the right point of contact, the practical draw is the resource fair itself. Attendees will be able to learn more about healthcare resources available to Montana veterans while moving between resource tables, live music and food truck vendors in central Helena. The setup gives local veterans a low-barrier way to get information in person rather than trying to sort through it alone.

The Helena event also lands beside other America 250 programming in the capital city. Montana’s signature America 250 kickoff is set for June 27 at the Montana Heritage Center, and the state’s 250th Commission says July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The commission says the commemoration is meant to engage Montanans with both the nation’s founding and the millennia of Indigenous history that preceded it, making late June a concentrated stretch of public events in Helena.