Hagley Museum and Library
On the Brandywine, original du Pont powder works, working machinery, a workers’ community, and the family’s first American home make industry tangible.
Places and wildlife — page 66
Browse Explore’s field guide to destinations, wildlife, art, and the natural world. Open a discovery for practical details and background.
Cape Henlopen State Park
Beaches, low dunes, maritime woodland, and migrating shorebirds meet at the Atlantic–Delaware Bay junction, with trails that reach very different habitats.
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science
An interactive regional journey connects the state’s dunes, marshes, forest, and cypress swamps to wider stories of adaptation and evolution.
Air Mobility Command Museum
A historic Dover hangar and outdoor aircraft tell how airlift, refueling, and the people behind them connect distant places.
New Castle Court House Museum
Inside the 1732 courthouse, guided tours connect colonial law, the 1776 separation vote, and later struggles over freedom.
Trap Pond State Park
A southern Delaware millpond and freshwater wetland shelter one of America’s northernmost natural bald-cypress stands.
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
A 12-mile wildlife drive threads Delaware Bay salt marsh, managed freshwater pools, and uplands where migrating birds gather.
Mt. Cuba Center
A former estate now pairs formal and naturalistic gardens with research into which native plants best support Mid-Atlantic wildlife.
Nemours Estate
Alfred I. du Pont’s mansion, formal gardens, and chauffeur’s garage reveal both the spectacle and the machinery of an early twentieth-century estate.
Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge
A Delaware Bay refuge joins tidal marsh, freshwater wetlands, woodland trails, and a shorebird beach where access follows the nesting season.
Delaware Botanic Gardens
Piet Oudolf’s meadow opens onto woodland and tidal Pepper Creek, letting visitors see how designed planting and coastal-plain ecology overlap.
Delaware Seashore State Park
Six miles of barrier-coast beach frame the Indian River Inlet, where bridge views, surf, bayside water, and maritime history make different outings.
Fort Delaware State Park
Board the Delaware City ferry to an 1859 Union fort where reenactors, a cannon demonstration, and the prisoner-of-war story meet the river landscape.
Biggs Museum of American Art
On Dover’s historic Green, regional painting, silver, furniture, illustration, and changing exhibitions make American art feel close to home.
Zwaanendael Museum
A striking 1931 Dutch-inspired building commemorates the 1631 Swanendael colony while exploring Lewes’s wider maritime and social history.
The Old State House
Step from Dover’s Green into a restored courtroom and legislative chambers in the state’s first permanent capital building.
Brandywine Zoo
This compact Brandywine Park zoo makes animal behavior, keeper conversations, and conservation easier to notice than sheer collection size.
Lums Pond State Park
A broad millpond anchors forest trails, paddling, a nature center, and camping in a northern Delaware landscape shaped by canal history.
The Delaware Contemporary
A working-artist hub on Wilmington’s riverfront, where seven galleries and 26 studios keep the conversation moving.
Nanticoke Indian Museum
A small, tribe-operated museum in a former schoolhouse shares Nanticoke objects, art, and living cultural knowledge.
Junction & Breakwater Trail
Walk or ride the former Lewes–Rehoboth rail corridor through pine woods, fields, and the Holland Glade marsh.
Old Swedes Historic Site
The Hendrickson House, early burial ground, and Holy Trinity Church preserve layers of New Sweden and later Wilmington lives.
Delaware History Museum & Mitchell Center
A former Market Street department store links Delaware’s broad history to African American experiences, voices, and struggles for freedom.
Delaware Agricultural Museum & Village
Historic machinery indoors and relocated village buildings outside turn Delaware farming into a story of work and community.
Read House & Gardens
A grand 1804 New Castle house and its later formal gardens tell different chapters of design, domestic work, and preservation.
Gordons Pond Trail
A level Cape Henlopen route threads pine, salt marsh, and an elevated boardwalk beside a waterfowl-rich coastal lagoon.
Fort Christina Park
The rocky Christina River landing and a 1938 Swedish monument commemorate the New Sweden settlement begun here in 1638.
White Clay Creek State Park
A surprisingly varied network of wooded ridges, stream corridors, meadows, and historic traces surrounds a protected creek near Newark.
Brandywine Creek State Park
A northern Delaware Piedmont park joins nineteenth-century blue-gneiss walls, creek trails, old woods, and open meadow habitat.
Killens Pond State Park
A 66-acre pond, wooded loop, paddle launch, nature center, and separate waterpark offer very different ways into central Delaware outdoors.
Jack A. Markell Trail
A long raised boardwalk, rail-corridor path, and river crossing link Wilmington’s Riverfront with historic New Castle.
Fenwick Island State Park
Three miles of protected Atlantic strand and Little Assawoman Bay access offer two very different coastal waters on a narrow barrier island.
Alapocas Run State Park
A former blue-rock quarry, riverside trails, folk-art barn, and accessible play area pack surprising variety beside Wilmington.
Bellevue State Park
Estate trees, Bellevue Hall, a former horse-training track, and greenway paths invite an easy day in north Wilmington.
Holts Landing State Park
An accessible marsh trail and crabbing pier reveal saltwater habitat away from the Atlantic beach crowds.
Fort Miles Historical Area
A concrete gun battery, coastal observation towers, and an underground museum explain the Delaware Bay’s wartime defense.
Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site
The only Revolutionary-era land battle in Delaware is one chapter of a homestead, mill, farming, and Black family history.
John Dickinson Plantation
The brick house, reconstructed dwelling, and new interpretation ask whose work and lives made Dickinson’s political world possible.
Northern Delaware Greenway Trail
A mostly asphalt shared path connects Wilmington’s river valley with estates, wooded parks, and Bellevue over more than ten miles.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Beyond its famous staircase, Philadelphia’s landmark art museum rewards close looking across global collections and a building worth reading in its own right.
Barnes Foundation
Barnes’s densely arranged ensembles invite you to connect color, line, ironwork, and objects across artists and eras.
Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright’s cantilevered house reaches over Bear Run, joining modern architecture to stone, forest, and falling water.
Longwood Gardens
Fountains, conservatories, woodlands, and meadow plantings make Longwood a designed landscape that changes dramatically by season and time of day.
Independence Hall
The Assembly Room witnessed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—two revolutions in government, separated by eleven contentious years.
Gettysburg National Military Park
The battlefield's ridges, fields, roads, and memorials make the three-day 1863 battle legible as geography as well as national memory.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
Walk a radial-plan nineteenth-century prison, then confront what its reform experiment reveals about incarceration and justice today.
Ohiopyle State Park
The Youghiogheny River cuts a dramatic gorge through Ohiopyle, with easy falls views, strenuous trails, and renowned whitewater in one park.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs in Their Time puts Carnegie's fossil discoveries into recreated ancient ecosystems, not just rows of impressive skeletons.