Welcome to Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on conservation
history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. Opened
in June 1998, Vermont's first national park preserves and interprets the
historic Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property.
The Park is named for George Perkins Marsh, one of the nation's first
global environmental thinkers, who grew up on the property, and for Frederick
Billings, an early conservationist who established a progressive dairy
farm and professionally managed forest on the former Marsh farm. Frederick
Billings's granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller, and her husband, conservationist
Laurance S. Rockefeller, sustained Billings's mindful practices in forestry
and farming on the property over the latter half of the 20th century.
In 1983, they established the Billings Farm & Museum to continue the
farm's working dairy and to interpret rural Vermont life and agricultural
history.
The park was created
in 1992, when the Rockefellers gifted the estate's residential and forest
lands to the people of the United States. Today, the Park interprets the
history of conservation with tours of the mansion and the surrounding
550-acre forest.
Operating Hours & Seasons
The park is open to
the public daily for tours from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Memorial Day
weekend through October 31st.
The 20 miles of historic Carriage Roads & Trails are open year round.
The Billings Farm & Museum is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
May 1 - October 31st.
Communities
Surrounding Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical
Note: The times listed below are approximate driving times to the park.