NORTH DAKOTA — President Donald Trump will visit North Dakota on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, to see the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. He will be the first official visitor to the facility and is scheduled to speak at a Western-themed amphitheater near the library.

The 96,000 square-foot library officially opens on July 4, 2026. The project cost $450 million to build and is located in a county of 1,000 people, specifically in a town of 120 residents.

The event is organized by Freedom250, a group created by Trump. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum advocated for the library's construction when he was governor of North Dakota. In 2019, Burgum championed the library to the state's Republican-led legislature, which approved a $50 million operations endowment.

Library planners were required to raise $100 million in private donations, a goal they met in 2020. As of early 2026, donations for the library totaled approximately $354 million. Donors include oil executive Harold Hamm, the Waltons of Walmart, Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth Griffin, and Burgum.

The library is situated near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Theodore Roosevelt visited Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison and primarily ranched cattle and hunted in North Dakota from 1884 to 1887. He served as U.S. president from 1901 to 1909.

Robbie Lauf, the library's executive director, said locating the facility in a small community is intentional. "It's a feature, not a bug, that we are in a county of 1,000 people and a town of 120," Lauf said. "TR came here for that purpose."

All living former U.S. presidents received invitations to the grand opening. The library will display artifacts such as Roosevelt's Rough Riders uniform, his 1884 diary, and items from the 1912 assassination attempt against him, including his eyeglasses case, speech, and shirt.