We visited the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP in Woodstock, Vermont on 6/10/2017. The park has two sections. the Billings Farm and Museum and across the street is the National Historical Park. They are co-managed but do have separate admission fees. There are Visitor Centers for both properties but all parking is on the farm side of the property. The museum has extensive displays of farm life and activities and also an award winning film “A Place in the Land”. You can walk around the working farm and see all the animals in the barns and out in the fields. There is a farm house but it wasn’t open when we were there.
Across the street from the farm is the National Historical Park where there is a Visitor Center, mansion and gardens and many miles of carriage roads. The property was first established by George Marsh who was the author of Man and Nature one of the founding texts of the environmental movement. The Marsh family farm was bought in 1869 by Frederick Billings who set out to build a farm that would be a model of wise stewardship. His daughters and granddaughter, Mary French, carried on the stewardship after his death. Mary French married Laurance Rockefeller and they continued the commitment to conservation and stewardship until they gave the property to the National Park Service. Tours of the mansion and gardens are given during the day but you must make reservations as the tour size is limited.
There are quite a few miles of carriage roads which you are also welcome to use. There aren’t any tours on the carriage roads but they have a good map that is easy to follow.
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