Zwaanendael Museum
A striking 1931 Dutch-inspired building commemorates the 1631 Swanendael colony while exploring Lewes’s wider maritime and social history.
Delaware, United States: places and wildlife — page 3
Browse the published Explore collection for Delaware, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
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.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.
Sugar Maple
Recognize New York's state tree by more than its color: bark, paired buds, and leaf shape tell the whole story.