Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park — Attraction in Upton

It is OK if you are trying to notch parks. They have The Lincoln Family Bible and an interesting family tree. The monument, true to NPS standards, has been built well away from parking. They feel long walks are good for you even if you are disabled. You walk two blocks to the 56 steps of the monument or walk a 1/4 mile through the woods to see a scaled down replica of their log home. The history, his dad moved here and bought a farm near a spring on bad soil that could barely be farmed. The surveys were not certified so they got kicked off the land while they and several other families fought it out in court with a local big wig. They leased bottom land at Knob Creek till they lost the law suit. They moved on to Indiana where surveys were certified. After kicking them out and Abe becoming President they named everything in the region after him and make more money in an hour than Thomas paid for the farm ($300). At Knob Creek they have replica of their cabin made from log cabin wood salvaged from the period. Everything is locked up, but you can look at it. At the main site they put in all these new facilaties, insist you go to the visitors center to get a head count. They have a rigid schedule for the film that ends well before closing so you may not see it. The park gates close precisely on time. They are quite proud and blast all over the park they will...

This is a memorial that proudly emphasizes that Abraham Lincoln was a Kentuckian before he became a Hoosier or Illinoisan.

We were impressed by the video that is shown in the gift shop, as it fairly and concisely interpreted the story of Abraham Lincoln’s early youth. This video also encouraged us to visit the Lincoln Farm at Knob Creek to see Lincoln’s boyhood home — the farm at Knob Creek is about a 20 minute drive from this memorial and it’s not to be missed!

The gift shop in the visitor center had some great books on Lincoln that I’m looking forward to reading. I would ask the Park Service to remove the small musical instrument called a “Jew’s Harp” from the gift store given the rise of anti-semitism in America today.

We liked visiting the memorial that surrounds the log cabin, though we were dismayed to find that it was not actually the Lincoln Cabin that’s on display (40 years after the memorial was constructed, it was discovered that the cabin underneath the romanesque structure was not actually the Lincoln family’s humble cabin). Our favorite part of the visit was seeing the natural spring that would have been the Lincoln family’s water source, and the reason the family called the farm “Sinking Springs.”

We’d recommend spending about an hour at this monument, and it’s a great visit if you’re in the area or Lincoln...

My wife and I stopped for a few hours here on August 6th, 2024 while en route to Bardstown, KY. It was a beautiful place during the summertime on a cool and sunny morning when everything was lush and green. The grounds and visitor center are kept very nicely. The self-guided museum has some good updated and (factual corrected) history about one of our most famous presidents, and there are a few short hiking trails between the main visitor center and mini Lincoln Memorial up the hill from it. It only takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to see and do everything at this National Park landmark, and it's worth a side track from the Interstate to come and check it out if your transiting central Kentucky while headed north or south. There is no admission fee at this park (it's free). Also, we were towing a small 20' long travel trailer (camper) and there was a large parking area section for buses and RVs, so we had no problems with parking. It could potentially get crowded on weekends or on days when school field trips are scheduled, but I got the sense that this doesn't happen very often because the location is a bit off the...