Comments on: Our Little House on the Prairie road trip https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/ Never let your schooling interrupt your education. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Annette M. Whipple https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-808256 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-808256 Oh, I love this…and Little House!
Seeing the homes makes such a huge difference. The first one I visited when researching Wilder’s books was the Wilder farm in upstate NY since it is only 8 hours from me. Some of my photos even made it into my book The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide (Chicago Review Press, 2020).

Thank you for encouraging others to visit the homesites! Visitors (and purchases to their museum stores) makes a huge difference in preserving these homesites!

]]> By: Laci https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-799884 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-799884 If you ever do the Walton’s Mountain or Petticoat Junction tours, you will post about those, too, won’t you?

]]> By: Shelley https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-738916 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-738916 This is awesome! My husband is retiring from the military next year and we are doing a 1 year RV trip around the U.S. before he begins civilian work. My youngest daughter (9), who is obsessed with all things Little House on the Prairie does not want to go and recently said, “I’ll only go if we can go to all the Little House places when we are on the trip.” How perfect that just a few weeks later I heard you on RAR, I was so excited to show this to my daughter to get her excited about this trip, thank you for sharing your Little house trip.

]]> By: DANIELLE https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-726090 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-726090 We have been to the one in Kansas but none of the others. It was a really pretty area, kind of in the middle of nowhere which added to its charm. Looks like a fun trip!

]]> By: Jamie Martin https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-724522 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-724522 In reply to Colette Miller.

Oh I’m so glad it was helpful, Colette! Have a lovely trip!

]]> By: Colette Miller https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-724407 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-724407 We love Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, and this is so helpful in planning a trip for my Little House fans. Thanks for the time you put into it, and looks like a wonderful trip (a few years ago).

]]> By: Barb & George, Little House Site Tours https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-512862 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-512862 We have done tours to all the Little House Sites for 16 years. We really enjoyed your blog and pictures. We have two good tours planned for 2017. You can check our website for details. Please email us if you have questions.

]]> By: Anna https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-425640 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-425640 In reply to Anna.

Sorry didn’t mean to misspell your name. It was autocorrect. :/

]]> By: Anna https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-425639 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-425639 Hi Jaime,
I have been reading your post to help us out with visiting the sites. Thanks so much for putting your time into it. As I write this we are camping at lake Pepin campground and we will be moving on to some of the other sites on the list including Badlands and Mt. Rushmore. I had no idea of this little relation to the Ingalls. What a great thing to be able to share this with our kids.

]]> By: Melissa https://simplehomeschool.net/little-house-site-tour/#comment-321341 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=33141#comment-321341 Reading this made my eyes tear up. Thank you so much for sharing and for taking the time to list so many important details about the sites. I loved the book as a girl, and my ten year old son has read the series twice. We’ve read most of the books aloud as a family too, so my 7 and 5 year old are big fans as well. My youngest has been asking… “can we go visit little house?” I’d love to make this trip happen – pretty much exactly as you list it. (I too would have made a picnic with bread & butter & cheese — just like in the books 🙂 ) We would be traveling from the middle of the east coast, and I was wondering if you could share any additional info with me, maybe via email? I know you must be so busy, so I understand if not. I guess I’m wondering how long the trip took, and if there are other interesting things along the way? Or for on the drive home? Also, what time of year did your family go? It seems we have the same preference about crowds & busy times of year.
I really enjoy and appreciate your blog. Thank you.

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