Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The house is a tour. The rose garden is the quiet part, and it is free.
- Food
- Eveready Diner
- Church
- St. James’ Episcopal Church
- Music
- Fisher Center at Bard
- Farm stand
- Hyde Park Farmers Market
- Kids
- Marked for kids
- Groups
- Marked for a big group
- Lodging
- Hyde Park
Crowd level: Easy. Busy only at the obvious hour
Good with kids
Good for a big group
Best season House tickets are first come, first served. The Park Service says summer and October can sell out early. A weekday morning is the calm visit. Grounds hours change with the season.
Drive About 1 hr 45 min–2 hr 15 min
General guidance from Midtown to Hyde Park. Metro-North to Poughkeepsie plus a taxi is the train version. Check the timetable.
Parking. At the Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center. The house is a 5–10 minute walk from the desk. Do not drive up to the front door.
Springwood, the Roosevelt family house, run by the National Park Service. The house is a guided tour. The grounds and the rose garden are free. The presidential library next door sells a separate ticket.
Worth knowing
Tickets
NPS lists the house tour at $15 for ages 16 and older, free for 15 and under, sold first come at the visitor center. No individual reservations. Cards only. The library is another $15. The grounds and rose garden are free.
Two houses
Springwood and the Vanderbilt Mansion are one morning if you plan it. Eveready is on Route 9 between errands, not inside either gate.
With kids. The Park Service says visitors 15 and under are free on the house tour. The tour is guided and includes stairs. The grounds are the easier hour if a ticket is gone.
With a group. Individuals cannot reserve. A public group of 20 or more, and motor coaches, must reserve. NPS points that booking to Recreation.gov.
The short version
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in this house and is buried in the rose garden, with Eleanor Roosevelt. The Park Service gives the house tour. The library and museum are a different institution on the same lane. Tickets are not interchangeable.
Food nearby
Eveready Diner
The visitor center is not lunch. Eveready Diner’s Hyde Park page prints 4184 Route 9 North and hours of 7:00 am–10:00 pm, Monday through Sunday. Phone (845) 229-8100.
Their pageFarms and stands nearby
Hyde Park Farmers Market
The town page says local fruit and vegetables, meats and eggs, Italian specialties, baked goods, breads, and bagels, plus food you can eat there.
Season. The town page says Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., June through October, at 4390 Albany Post Road, across from Town Hall. It names Saturday, June 6, 2026 as opening day. The chamber sponsors it.
The grocery stop if you are cooking after the house tour. The page does not print a cash-only rule. A market in Cincinnati uses a similar name. Use the Hyde Park, New York town page.
Official page
Staying in Hyde Park – snapshot (lodging only)
Last checked: 2026-10-16. We recommend; you book directly. Prices are nightly, low–high by season, with a source. “From” prices depend on your dates. Items we couldn't verify are marked †.
The quiet base: Hyde Park. Journey Inn is across from the Vanderbilt estate.
Inns, B&Bs, farm stays, guesthouses, campgrounds
- Journey Inn, Hyde Park
- Type.
- Owner-run B&B
- Price (low–high).
- $200–215 (smallest rooms) up to $290–310 (suite for 4) + tax (own)
- Good for.
- Medium
- Book via.
- Expedia found: https://www.expedia.com/Poughkeepsie-Hotels-Journey-Inn-Bed-Breakfast.h17902038.Hotel-Information ; Booking: not found
- Why we like it.
- Across from the Vanderbilt estate
Know before you book: Journey Inn prices are from the inn's own site, plus tax.
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Music
Fisher Center at Bard
Annandale-on-Hudson is up the river from Hyde Park. Summer festival and a year-round hall. The calendar is the schedule.
Official calendarA church
St. James’ Episcopal Church
The parish church associated with the Roosevelt family. Franklin and Eleanor worshipped here. It is a town church, not a cathedral stop.
Their site prints Sunday Holy Eucharist at 8:00 am and 10:00 am. On Sunday, December 28, 2026, they print one service only, at 10:00 am.
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