Ardenwood Entrance and Tickets

Ardenwood is a great place to bring young children. Lots of animals to see, some you can feed. Train rides on the weekends.

Great historical park and working farm. Great for entire family. Nice walking trails and some good birding, as well.

Perfect place for kids under 9 for almost half day here! No worries about parking lots, because there are plenty of spots even at weekends.
You have to purchase ticket for getting inside of the park at the entrance. Wearing a mask is the requirement, don’t forget to ask the ticket for full house tour for free, and train ticket with schedule at the train station after passing the entrance. I suggested you may take a train tour starting from the deer park station when you are ready to go back home. Walk to the animal area to feed animals like goat, sheep, cow, chicken, and rabbit with falling leaves. Please do not pick up the leaves from the trees. If you are lucky, you will meet with the peacock and turkeys in the park because they are wandering around during the daytime.
You may access more information about the farm and it’s history from the full house tour. They challenge the kids with the question of humming bird after the tour. Very interesting!
There are more restrooms in the park, and also picnic area with tables and benches for resting. Peace and quiet place for enjoying the nature!

Must have been better place to visit before the pandemic and during summers. Not much to do right now. But it's nice change, quiet place to relax. There are lot of park benches to sit and have a quiet picnic. Not many animals right now. Note that you need a reservation too park and enter.

My partner and I arrived around 2:30pm on a breezy Saturday afternoon. Parking was freeeeeee(!) so that was already a big plus for me. We walked up to the window, and the lady behind the counter enthusiastically and politely told us a bit about the farm, gave us a brochure that had a map on it, and informed us about the animal feeding that happens at the chicken coop at 3:30pm on Saturdays.

After her helpful spiel, I inquired about the peacocks I'd heard were strutting around the farm(which was pretty much the main reason we'd decided to visit); she mentioned that there are are currently five peacocks that roam around the farm, and since it was mating season, there was a high likelihood we would get to see the males spread their feathers(since it's a sort of courting attempt).

With that, we thanked her for her help and excitedly set off to hunt for a peacock-it didn't take long before we heard an extremely loud, "CA-CAW" and found not one, but two. Let me warn you though-they are VERY loud. I stood about 5 feet away from one, and when it walked up to me and "cawed" I just about jumped out of my skin; it's like they have a megaphone built into their throats or something.

Anyway, as you can see from the pictures, my wish to see their feathers fanned out came true! I'm pretty sure two of the males were about to scrap since they were cawing loudly at each other with their tail feathers spread, but luckily this time they were able to avoid being featured on WorldStar LOL.

I am a simple woman: I see a peacock, I am happy. (Okay, get your mind out of the gutter there). Which is to say that it was my first time seeing one, so take my review with a grain of salt, since it made me super happy.

Other highlights of our visit included stopping at the cafe; it was super cute and had lots of little knick knacks I'd never need but of course wanted to buy, as well as some lovely and delicious homemade lemonade. They also have flavored honey sticks, i.e. sour apple, raspberry, wildflower, coca-cola, etc.

We were also able to walk around to the different animal pens and pet the goats and sheep through the fences. There are also rabbits on the farm, however they're kept in a more secure enclosure, which is understandable since they tend to be jumpy creatures.

Overall, it was a very relaxing visit, and an afternoon well spent. I plan to return when the trains are operating.