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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical ParkThree story brick mansion with wide porch, white trim, tall chimneys, shrubs and green lawn. Photo by Jack Boucher.
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Green Pastures and Green Mountains

Walk through one of Vermont's most beautiful landscapes, under the shade of sugar maples and 400-year-old hemlocks, across covered bridges and alongside rambling stone walls. This is a landscape of loss, recovery, and conservation. This is a story of stewardship, of people taking care of places - sharing an enduring connection to land and a sense of hope for the future.

 
 
A close-up image of an artist's hands weaving wood and thread on her loom. NPS Photo.

Artist-in-Residence Program

The K2 Family Foundation and Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP are pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2009 Artist-in-Residence program at the park. For more information, and to get the application packet, please visit the K2FF website.

 
The warm tones of interior wood paneling contrast with sunlit greenery glimpsed through windows. NPS Photo.

Park Celebrates 10th Year with New Green Building

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP celebrates its tenth anniversary this summer with the opening of a new building and a new permanent exhibit. The Forest Center, a classroom and meeting space, is constructed almost entirely with wood harvested from the park’s Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified Mount Tom forest.
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Detail from Albert Bierstadt's painting of Cathedral Rock in Yosemite, showing a close up of the large granite mass.

Online Art Exhibit

Explore America's story of conservation and land stewardship through an online exhibit of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller art collection. Included are paintings by America's most famous landscape artists including Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, and Edward Moran.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
54 Elm Street
Woodstock, VT 05091

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Phone

Headquarters
(802) 457-3368

Visitor Information
(802) 457-3368 ext. 22

Fax

(802) 457-3405

Climate

The park lies within a temperate zone and experiences four full seasons. Arrive prepared for a wide variety of weather conditions. Summer temperatures are usually in the 70s or low 80s during the day and upper 60s in the evening. Spring and fall days can range from the 50s to lower 70s, with evenings in the upper 40s to low 60s. Winter temperatures average in the 20s. Winter snowfall is moderate to heavy - making for outstanding cross-country skiing.
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Clouds stream over Inscription Rock, a large butte standing tall and proud in the New Mexican landscape. NPS Photo.  

Did You Know?
Conservationist George Perkins Marsh, for whom Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP is named, championed the creation of a US Army Camel Corps. On El Morro National Monument's Inscription Trail you can see the inscriptions the Camel Corps left behind in 1855.

Last Updated: September 30, 2008 at 14:00 EST