daniel boone homestead

We were lucky enough to visit the Daniel Boone Homestead on a bright, cold autumn day that coincided with their annual Historical Re-enactment towards end of October. While busy it never felt crowded and for $8 per person it was steal! . Arriving close to 11am and leaving at 4pm we spent the entire day wandering from one exhibit to another- covering everything from the sawmill in full working order, to children's 17th cent games, to cooking demonstrations using ingredients grown on the land, and a school master, a gunsmith, blacksmiths and a Native American Storyteller. Crafts , home cottage industries and very knowledgeable guides and volunteers added to the experience. It helped matters that the day was fine- had it been raining it could have been a very different story. The setting is glorious and a photographers dream. A full team of Clydesdales pulling a cart was the icing on the cake. If you are visiting in October and like history it is well worth the effort.

This is a view of the west when the west was east of Harrisburg, PA. While they play up the Daniel Boone connection, the main cabin (accessible only by guided tour -- about 45 minutes long and leaving on the hour) was added on to by occupants after the Boone family left. You can see how the rich lived if you visit colonial mansions like Mount Vernon ..... but this cabin gives a glimpse into the life of the more ordinary people. I highly recommend the tour. There are also numerous outbuildings and walking paths but we didn't have time to explore them. We spent two hours there and felt the time was well worth it. The guide was very good. There is a fee... but it is very reasonable -- $6 if I remember correctly.

This site could be a great place to learn about one of America's premier frontiersmen... but it needs some work.This is a relatively small state park. Although it sits on the same location where Boone was born, the house here today has been modified and added on to several times. Admittance to the house is only by guided tour, the cost of which is higher than admission to the rest of the homestead. Besides the Boone house, there is a handful of other buildings that can be explored. The visitor center features a gift shop and a pretty good, short film on Boone's life and legacy. There are some small exhibits about Boone, but less than I was expecting... they could definitely be upgraded.

Very disappointed with this attraction! If you didn't pay for the tour only to enter the grounds you weren't allowed in any of the buildings. Maybe it was because of the time of year and there weren't that many people there but even the other buildings were locked. Seemed like a waste of money to get in

Check the schedule for special events. Nice walking trails through a historic old village. Great experience for children.

An extra $3 ($6 total adults/$3total kids) for guides to get inside and have guide of Daniel Boones home. Otherwise you can only look in. Home was the highlight. You can actually drive and park closer to some of the other bldgs. If you have kids who like to run around it's a great place to go. Outhouse bathroom - not sure if any others close by.

This is the place where Daniel Boone honed his legendary pioneering skills as a child. The family was here until he was about 16 and if you are in the area and have a few hours this is a great place to learn a little history.Lots of trails to explore and one that follows the course of the creek where you may see some wildlife. Very nice place and not a lot of money.

The park is very nice. We enjoyed our tour of the house as well as the barn and grounds. There was a scout group there so a lot of kids everywhere but, it was still enjoyable. If you have time and like history this is inexpensive and worth the minimal cost.

They have a great set of hiking and horse trails that are free to use. They also offer fishing with a valid state fishing license. I walk with my cairn terrier and he loves the wild life and walking with other dogs that are often on the trail with their owners. It's a great place to spend a quiet afternoon. They also often have evens where they open the historical buildings and do demonstrations of living during the time of Daniel Boone. I really enjoy going here.

I took my niece when they had the revolutionary war maneuvers. She really like the blacksmith. I found the info from the gunsmith and the explanation of why flax growing was important to that time period very helpful to my understanding of my historic novels of that time period.

This is the homestead that Daniel Boone's father build for the family. The legendary Daniel Boone himself lived here until he was 16 years old, perfecting the outdoors skills that would make him a legend.The small visitor's center has some quick, but informative, displays about Boone. There is supposedly a movie, but we got there pretty late, so we went right to the last house tour of the day. The house tour was excellent, one of the best I've been on (and I've toured a lot of old houses). The original Boone cabin was torn down, but the current house was build partially on the foundation of the old cabin. You start your tour on the porch, then head into the basement, where the floor is original, as is the spring located in the corner of the room, which Boone's father dug out himself. This is it for the remaining Boone connection to the house. The rest of the house was built by later owners of the property, who greatly expanded it. The whole house has period furniture (again, sadly not original to the property, but from the correct time period). Our tour guide didn't go on and on about the occupants so much as he gave you a real feel for what living there would have been like, for both the Boone's (11 children, all of whom lived to adulthood, all in one room... no wonder he headed for the wilderness!) and the later families. I was most impressed that our guide had the exact answer for every question on the tour (and there were some odd ones), and is an expert at period cooking, as well as a hobby weaver. He got his knowledge across precisely without going into a overly drawn out answer, a difficult task for anyone.Make sure to check out the slice of tree in the basement, it's been cut down more than 80 years and is still ridiculously well preserved. It would have been on the property when Daniel Boone lived there.

We stopped here on a short road trip...we've been meaning to come for years but things kept popping up. The day we came happened to be "Heritage Day" so there was many more people and things happening than usual. The first reenactor we met was fascinating. I have to say that I learned more in 10 minutes with him than I did in a half day in Williamsburg. We met many different people that day and all of them had their specialty information so we did learn a lot but the first guy blew me away with his sense of humor combined with information and then he could play multiple instruments on top of that. Since it was Heritage Day, we took the horse cart around the loop and it's a huge area. We were running late for a dinner with family so we couldn't stay too long. But some members of the Homestead convinced us to become members too so we could see other things when different events popped up. Of course, the grounds are beautiful and we saw many joggers there. They mentioned they get cross-country skiers in the winter and that sounded tempting too.

I didn't expect much here, but I was wrong. Lovely grounds, but it was the people that really made it. Zach, our guide, was exceptional. He seemed to have the answer to every question, but more than that, knows the trick of showing rather than telling and has a great sense of humor. The blacksmith also was more than helpful in showing us what he was doing and how items would be made. Larger places would kill for such well-informed individuals! A great experience!

The grounds are immaculate. What a great place for a stroll, family picnic. Especially now the foilage is absolutely breathtaking.

I went to the Daniel Boone Homestead for a reenactment and had a very nice, informative time there. There were tents set up in the fields that the people who were part of the reenactment camped in for the weekend. There were a number of pots over open fires where lunch was being prepared. All of the buildings were open with folks in period costume demonstrating cooking, blacksmithing, weaving, music, gardening, etc. There were a couple of battle reenactments that were realistic and, at the same time, funny. All-in-all, a fun day.