Most of the grounds at the Daniel Boone Homestead are free and open to the public. Enjoy a short walk around the man-made Daniel Boone Lake, where visitors with a valid fishing license can fish. The grounds include a picnic grove and bridle trails for walkers, hikers and horse riders. At the visitor center enjoy free exhibitions and a 15-minute orientation video about Daniel Boone.
The Homestead grounds offer fee-for-services areas operated by the state of Pennsylvania. The North and South Picnic Areas include access to drinking water and to pit toilets. To stay overnight, register for a tent camping area, with water and toilets, or stay at one of two rooms at the Wayside Lodge, which offers a total of 11 bunkbeds with places to sleep for 22 people, plus space on the floor for sleeping bags. The lodge also has two rooms with toilets and sinks, a kitchen and a common room with a fireplace. Walk down the gravel paths to enter the historical area for a small fee.
For an entrance fee, you can enter the historic home area of the Homestead. For an extra fee, take a guided or self-guided tour for insight into the real families that lived and worked in these buildings in the 18th century. Included in the tours is the log house and cellar built in 1734, where Daniel Boone was born; a smokehouse for preserving and storing meat; and a barn and its threshing floor, part of which is original.
Some of the buildings in the park were originally located elsewhere in the Oley Valley and were owned in the 18th century by the Bertolet family. They were brought to the Daniel Boone Homestead as examples of period architecture. These include a house, a combination bakehouse and smokehouse and a sawmill. The blacksmith shop was relocated to the Homestead because Daniel Boone's father, a blacksmith, would have used one there.
The grounds of Daniel Boone Homestead are open year-round every day except Monday, from morning till late afternoon. The Historic Home area is open on different hours depending on the time of year. Most of the year it is open only on Saturdays and Sundays, and in some months, on Fridays as well.
