Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

Nice historical park and part of the National Parks System. There are a lot of options for your visit, including a house tour, grounds to roam, and plenty of hiking trails.

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park Unit was quite cool to visit. Driving through Woodstock was a treat. The park itself has a cool visitor center and mansion. Beyond that there are miles of trails and plenty of hiking to do. I was not able to do much hiking as I was there relatively late but hope to come back one day. You are also able to do a tour of the mansion. I'm not sure I would go out of my way to visit this national park unit but if you are in the area it would be cool to check out.

This is a small and relatively obscure national historic Park but is well worth a visit if you're in the area. They have a series of trails around the surrounding hill. Nothing too challenging, but enough trails to get a sense of the surrounding beauty. The visitor center is relatively small but does a good job of explaining the history of the property and the forest conservation process. Tours of the mansion cost money, but wandering the property is free. Parking is across the street at the nearby farm that is unassociated with the national park system.

It was closed, but you can still walk the gounds and do the virtual tour. I feel it's better like this since you are self guided. Beautiful grounds, well taken care of. Nice place for the bff and I to spend some time today. It is a walk-up and down to parking lot.

Honestly, we have been to maybe a hundred national parks and historic sites and this was one of the most disappointing. The house and property themselves are beautiful. I felt like the grounds in front of the house were really overgrown and in poor appearance. The museum had good information about the families. We did the ticketed house tour (only 12 people per hour slot). I wish we could have learned more about the house and the families on the tour. Our tour lasted well over an hour, maybe 90 minutes and the house tour itself probably wasn’t 20 minutes of the tour. Most of the talk was about the conservation and stewardship of the land (which it seems is part of the legacy the family wanted included as part of their donation of the property). Some members of our tour left before we went in the house because it had been almost an hour. It was the most un-house house tour I have ever been on. Many of the rooms were not even discussed. A painting in the hall might be discussed for 10 minutes. I was sad because I would have liked to hear more family stories about the house. The other buildings on the property weren’t discussed at all.

A cool morning but we had a beautiful walk/hike in these beautiful Vermont woods. Trees just beginning to turn colors, a pond to walk around,a gentle breeze and a time to reflect on one of God's beautiful creation. The view point was calming.

We enjoyed the guided tour through the home and wandering the grounds. Evidence of how we can reverse environmental damage through conservation principles.

This is the only home within the park. Has a ranger within to explain. Has a trail to walk throughout the park. A historic family owned place until donated to the county to become a tourist action. A very good place to think and enjoy the beauty of the past. A well preserved home. You could really tell how many could go far.