Fort DuPont State Park — Attraction in Delaware City

I want to like this park. I really do. I can’t. If you’ve come from anywhere but local and aren’t visiting the adjacent Fort Delaware State Park located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware river, you’re wasting your time. If you’re into urbex, this park may have some interest to you. There are assorted boarded up buildings here in various states of decay. There are no signs here (except for one or two buildings) explaining what these buildings are/were so bring your imagination. I’m into photography and some of this stuff is interesting and I’ll include some pics. If you’ve got a boat there are adjacent locations from which you may launch. Thankfully there’s fishing and some really beautiful scenery nearby. It’s...

I'm a fan of historical sites, so visiting this old fort is a no-brainer for me. I would love to give this more "stars", however, like others have mentioned, there is a real lack of infrastructure and care from the State Parks department. On the whole, I thoroughly enjoy exploring here with my kids, and they have a blast. I think the biggest issue is the the fact that this could be more like Ft. Mott across the river in New Jersey - but it isn't. If some more effort were put into signage at the different points maybe explaining some more of the history and the "how did this work?" I would be...

A total dump. You drive through a run-down set of buildings with no indication of what they are, and then you proceed down a dirt road to the parking lot. No signs, no plaques, overgrown grass, washed-up trash all along the path from the parking lot to the main “trail”. There is a bunker but it looks like an old prison, again with no signs or historical information. There’s potential here if the state fixed the buildings up and made the town look maybe like Hopewell Furnace. A complete waste of time. I don’t understand how this has a State Park...