What to Expect
🇺🇸 FDR's Lifelong Home
Explore the Hyde Park estate closely connected to Franklin D. Roosevelt's life, presidency, and legacy.
🌳 Expansive Historic Grounds
Walk through the large property surrounding the Roosevelt home and explore a landscape that remained important to FDR throughout his life.
🎟️ Free to Explore
Entry to the National Historic Site and its grounds is free, while tours and certain additional experiences require paid admission.
🏠 Tour Springwood
Take a guided tour of Springwood, the Roosevelt family home where FDR was born and returned throughout his life.
📚 FDR Presidential Library
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is located on the property but operates separately from the National Park Service and requires its own admission.
👥 Popular Historic Site
This can be a busy Hudson Valley attraction, so allow plenty of time and consider planning ahead if you want to tour the home or visit the library.
Our Experience - Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site is much more than a preserved presidential home. The expansive Hyde Park property provides a fascinating look at the place FDR remained connected to throughout his life, from his childhood through his presidency and final years.
The grounds themselves are free to enter and offer plenty to explore, although this was noticeably busier than some of the other National Park Service sites we visited in the Hudson Valley. If you'd like to go deeper into Roosevelt's story, additional paid experiences include touring Springwood, his longtime family home.
The property is also home to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. It's important to note that the library is separate from the National Park Service site and requires its own admission. That does, however, give history lovers the opportunity to combine the two into a much more extensive FDR experience if you have enough time.
Whether you simply explore the grounds or dedicate several hours to the home, exhibits, and presidential library, this is one of the Hudson Valley's most significant historic destinations and an especially worthwhile stop for anyone interested in American presidential history.
