Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Elverson PA

I love this place! It's a great historical walk in all seasons. If you're lucky, you'll get to see the sheep grazing or cows in the field.

Not our first time here but a great afternoon experience touring the many buildings and furnace. People worked very hard in the 1800's to produce cast-iron stoves, pots and other iron products.

Hopewell Furnace is truly a great find! We came with no notice on a weekday off and had a lovely time. Far less busy than usual on a Monday, as told by a friendly Interper. They have reenactment on weekends, but it was nice to visit on a quiet day.

Great experience for the whole family. The entire self guided walk through takes about 1-2 hours so not a whole day affair. Lots of great restored history.

We had a lovely time with the family visiting this beautiful Historical National Park which reminded me so much of our trip to Scotland. I highly recommend this park to anyone who is visiting Reading PA or are in the vicinity of Lancaster PA

Nice area to spend a few hours. Interesting history of the local area and plenty of trails to try!

This place is pretty cool. Very interesting history, nice hiking, and picnic areas for the family.

Hopewell Furnace Historic Site. Mansion was closed for renovation. A small village circa 1771. Farms with horses, chickens, sheep. Very educational and real.nice to step into history. Must see.

Very pleasant and informative place. My only issue was walking on the gravelly, sloped streets with my cane.

The junior ranger program was great and the park ranger was so kind and interactive with the kids! Make sure you ask to do it, it's free!

I'd been years ago and we brought our little kids this weekend. They loved it! I never thought a 4-year-old and 8-year-old would care about iron production, but they did - postings are thorough enough for grown-ups to learn something but simple enough to keep kids engaged. The rangers were very knowledgeable and up for answering questions from our littles.
The water wheel was almost meditative to look at and listen to as well.

This great place to visit and hike. Check their website for special events. For hikers trails here connect to French Creek State Park and Crows Nest Preserve.

We had never heard about this place before we went. But it becomes one of our favorite places on our road trip. It has a visitor center and park rangers are very friendly, helpful and informative. We could tell that they love their job and are proud of what they are doing. The whole site are very well maintained and cleared signed. There are even some audios in some places. Lots of histories of the early US cast iron industry. Walking around the ground, we felt like travel back to the old days. The restroom are very clean. This National Historic Site locates in the middle of a state park, so there are lots of hiking trails around, if you have time, you can spend the whole day here and enjoy. Only regret is the mansion was closed at the time of our visiting.

This is a wonderful historic place to go, very educational, the water wheel is in operation. Depending on when you go there are active demonstration of the processes they used back then

Interesting historic site that we finally were able to visit yesterday after passing the signs for it many, many times.

An old iron working Mill and Farm that is surrounded by French Creek Park.

We had never heard of this site but stopped by on the way to Valley Forge for the weekend. Had so much fun and learned a lot! Would recommend visiting before Valley Forge versus on the way back after. We completed the Junior Ranger Activity booklet and badge program. We had yucky weather (hot and humid in July) but we finished seeing all of the buildings and exhibits in around two hours.

We ran into several rangers who each greeted us and warned us about the incoming thunderstorm. They were all so pleasant and eager to answer our questions! Plenty of parking available in front of the visitor center. Limited cell phone service in the area, so download GPS directions ahead of time! The gravel pathways are well-marked but a little hilly, so wear comfy shoes!

This place is so cool! Absolutely stop in for a visit, just be prepared to do some walking. Kids would love this place

Love it here. Kids always have a blast. So much history in one little place. Glad to see the buildings are being opened so you can see how they lived back then.