Little House Travel
Any and all info to help you plan a trip to any Laura homesite, museum, or attraction.
Wading in Plum Creek
The experience of wading in Plum Creek, how to do it and what it’s like.
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Get Out and Walk
Arguing that a visit to a place Laura lived is best done by walking.
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Where To Stay In Pepin?
In what must have been a cloud of immense grief on the discovery that the Historic Anderson Inn was closed, I just realized to my surprise that I have neglected to secure lodging in Pepin next month. I’ve been on Google Maps trying to make a selection for a place to stay. Have any of
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Vacation Planner Finale
I’ve been getting questions lately from people who stumbled on one of the Vacation Planner posts and couldn’t find the rest, so I thought I’d tie together any loose ends and post links to the entire series so that it’s all together in one place.
If you are planning a Little House vacation, here is all
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Camping at the Ingalls Homestead
To my mind there’s nothing better than spending a day at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet – unless it’s spending the night. Yes, you heard me right, you can spend the night on the Ingalls’ land, allowing you to get a small peek into what it must have been like to live on the
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Vacation Planner: Part 5 — Other Activities
We all have them. The husband who just doesn’t understand why his wife is so wrapped up in “children’s books.” The sibling who grumbles and complains about being dragged across the Midwest on summer vacation when he really wanted to go to the beach. The child who, no matter how much you talk Laura up, has absolutely no
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The Prairie House Manor
Among the earliest citizens of De Smet was its banker, Thomas Ruth. Banker Ruth receives several mentions in The Long Winter as having bought out the lumberyard and then the last bag of flour at costs higher than the Ingalls family could have afforded anyway. In 1894, the year that Almanzo and Laura left De
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Visit Laura’s Homesites Online
In my other life I’m a sometimes-magazine writer. Lately I’ve been getting my ongoing work in order, and part of that includes preparing for a trip report I’ll write on visiting the Little House sites this summer. I’ll be traveling from Pepin to Walnut Grove to De Smet and I’m taking my family along: my
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Vacation Planner: Part 4 — Traveling in the Off-Season
While pageant weekends and special events are a wonderful time to visit the Little House sites, they certainly aren’t the only good time. The popularity of the pageants and events draws the crowds. The crowds are never overwhelming, but if you’re hoping for a personal and quiet experience at the homesites, that’s not
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