Accessible Historic Sites

Historic landmarks and cultural sites with modern wheelchair access: ramps, elevators and accessible tours, with detailed access notes for every listing. 83 destinations, ranked by accessibility score.

• Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park (Topeka, Kansas) – score 4.7/5 – A Topeka National Park Service civil-rights site with accessible parking, ramps, elevator access, captioned exhibits, a…
• Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine (Baltimore, Maryland) – score 4.7/5 – A National Park Service historic fort in Baltimore best known for the Battle of Baltimore and the story behind the U.S.…
• Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg, Virginia) – score 4.7/5 – A multi-battlefield Virginia NPS park where most buildings and many trails are accessible, with ramped visitor-center a…
• Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home (Manchester, Vermont) – score 4.7/5 – Hildene is the historic Lincoln family estate in Manchester, with a preserved home, gardens, farms, Pullman car, trails…
• Salem Maritime National Historical Park (Salem, Massachusetts) – score 4.7/5 – A waterfront Massachusetts NPS site with fully accessible walkways, an accessible visitor center, ramp and lift access…
• Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (Deer Lodge, Montana) – score 4.6/5 – A Montana National Park Service ranch history site with accessibility resources by mobility, hearing, vision, and cogni…
• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park (Church Creek, Maryland) – score 4.6/5 – A National Park Service site on Maryland's Eastern Shore interpreting Harriet Tubman, freedom, faith, family, and Under…
• Homestead National Historical Park (Beatrice, Nebraska) – score 4.6/5 – A Beatrice National Park Service site with accessible visitor facilities, wheelchairs, assisted listening devices, open…
• Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (Woodstock, Vermont) – score 4.6/5 – A Vermont NPS conservation-history site with accessible parking, accessible visitor-center planning, mansion access tha…
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Washington, DC) – score 4.5/5 – An open-air memorial on the Tidal Basin, fully wheelchair accessible, with a statue of FDR in his wheelchair at the ent…
• Gateway Arch National Park (St. Louis, Missouri) – score 4.5/5 – A St. Louis riverfront park built around the 630-foot arch, with paved, accessible grounds; reaching the top requires 9…
• Scotts Bluff National Monument (Gering, Nebraska) – score 4.5/5 – A Nebraska National Park Service landmark with accessible visitor-center parking, accessible summit parking, paved over…
• Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (Republic, Missouri) – score 4.5/5 – A Missouri National Park Service battlefield with wheelchair-accessible visitor center and Ray House access, accessible…
• Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, New York) – score 4.5/5 – A Seneca Falls NPS site with accessible visitor center, Wesleyan Chapel, Declaration Park, and M’Clintock House ramp ac…
• Big Hole National Battlefield (Wisdom, Montana) – score 4.4/5 – A Montana NPS battlefield with accessible visitor-center services, accessible restrooms, captioned media, service-anima…
• Chaco Culture National Historical Park (Nageezi, New Mexico) – score 4.4/5 – A New Mexico NPS ancestral Puebloan site with visitor-center access, accessible restrooms, assistive media, service-ani…
• Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Fort Laramie, Wyoming) – score 4.4/5 – A preserved western historic site with accessible parking, free wheelchair loans, staff-available golf-cart tours, ramp…
• Fort Scott National Historic Site (Fort Scott, Kansas) – score 4.4/5 – A Kansas frontier military historic site with paved connecting walkways, ramps to most historic structures, an elevator…
• Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (Williston, North Dakota) – score 4.4/5 – A reconstructed Upper Missouri fur-trade post with NPS-documented accessible parking, visitor-center ramps, seasonal ca…
• Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (West Branch, Iowa) – score 4.4/5 – A West Branch NPS historic site with accessible visitor facilities, accessible restrooms, assistive listening, captione…
• Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park (Cornish, New Hampshire) – score 4.4/5 – A Cornish NPS arts and historic site with accessible visitor center parking, accessibility route maps, captioned and au…
• Antietam National Battlefield (Sharpsburg, Maryland) – score 4.3/5 – A Civil War battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland, with an accessible visitor center, elevator access to the museum, an…
• Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (Appomattox, Virginia) – score 4.3/5 – A Virginia NPS historic village with clear accessibility limitations, wheelchair loan, first-floor film option, braille…
• Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (Stanton, North Dakota) – score 4.3/5 – A National Park Service site near Stanton with a visitor center, earthlodge, village trails, and official mobility note…
• Pecos National Historical Park (Pecos, New Mexico) – score 4.3/5 – Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish mission ruins near Santa Fe. The visitor center is step-free and paved, with a wheelchair…
• Harry S Truman National Historic Site (Independence, Missouri) – score 4.2/5 – An Independence NPS historic site with accessible parking details, ramped Noland Home visitor contact station access, a…
• Washington Monument (Washington, DC) – score 4.2/5 – The marble obelisk at the center of the National Mall. An elevator carries visitors to the observation level, 500 feet…
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site (Springfield, Illinois) – score 4.1/5 – Tour the only home Abraham Lincoln ever owned, in Springfield, Illinois. The Visitor Center is accessible, and a lift r…
• Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC) – score 4.1/5 – The marble memorial at the west end of the National Mall. An elevator beside the front steps reaches the statue chamber.
• Washita Battlefield National Historic Site (Cheyenne, Oklahoma) – score 4.1/5 – A western Oklahoma NPS historic site with official accessibility resources for mobility, hearing, vision, and service a…
• Chateau de Mores State Historic Site (Medora, North Dakota) – score 4/5 – State historic site interpreting the Marquis de Mores and Medora history.
• Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – score 4/5 – Historic former prison in Philadelphia with exhibits, audio interpretation, and justice-focused programming.
• Effigy Mounds National Monument (Harpers Ferry, Iowa) – score 4/5 – A National Park Service site above the Mississippi River with a boardwalk to three nearby mounds and a wheelchair you c…
• El Rancho de las Golondrinas (Santa Fe, New Mexico) – score 4/5 – El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a Santa Fe, NM historic site that gives Accessible America travelers a concrete, plan-a…
• Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (Vancouver, Washington) – score 4/5 – A reconstructed 1800s fur-trade fort and U.S. Army post with a companion air museum, offering free wheelchair loans and…
• Hoover Dam (Boulder City, Nevada) – score 4/5 – Hoover Dam is a Boulder City, NV historic site that gives Accessible America travelers a concrete, plan-ahead stop with…
• Iowa State Capitol (Des Moines, Iowa) – score 4/5 – Historic state capitol offering public tours in Des Moines.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (Little Rock, Arkansas) – score 4/5 – NPS site interpreting the Little Rock Nine and school desegregation history.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park (Atlanta, Georgia) – score 4/5 – Historic district preserving places connected to Dr. King’s life and leadership.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument (Jackson, Mississippi) – score 4/5 – A national monument preserving the home connected to civil-rights leaders Medgar and Myrlie Evers and the struggle for…
• Wisconsin State Capitol (Madison, Wisconsin) – score 4/5 – Historic state capitol offering public tours in Madison.
• ʻIolani Palace (Honolulu, Hawaii) – score 4/5 – ʻIolani Palace is a Honolulu, HI historic site that gives Accessible America travelers a concrete, plan-ahead stop with…
• Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, DC) – score 3.9/5 – The ornate main building of the nation's library, across from the Capitol. Accessible entrance at the driveway level be…
• Monticello (Charlottesville, Virginia) – score 3.8/5 – Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop plantation home. Lift-equipped shuttles reach the house, and the first floor is reached…
• Petroglyph National Monument (Albuquerque, New Mexico) – score 3.8/5 – A 17-mile volcanic escarpment west of Albuquerque with about 24,000 Native American and Spanish-era rock carvings. The…
• Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum (Bristol, Rhode Island) – score 3.7/5 – A historic mansion and gardens in Bristol, Rhode Island. The first floor and grounds are wheelchair accessible, but the…
• Manassas National Battlefield Park (Manassas, Virginia) – score 3.6/5 – A Civil War battlefield in Manassas, Virginia, with a ramped visitor center entrance, power-assisted doors, and two loa…
• Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park (Paterson, New Jersey) – score 3.2/5 – A National Park Service site in Paterson, New Jersey, with accessible parking at Overlook Park and paved paths that nee…
• The Alamo (San Antonio, Texas) – score 3.2/5 – The 1836 battle site in downtown San Antonio. Entry to the church is free, and it has one wheelchair-accessible door, t…
• This Is The Place Heritage Park (Salt Lake City, Utah) – score 3/5 – A 450-acre Utah State Park living-history village east of Salt Lake City, with an ADA-accessible Visitors Center and fr…
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Keystone, South Dakota) – score 1.7/5 – America's most iconic presidential sculpture offers surprisingly accessible viewing with paved walkways and stunning mo…
• Atlantis Casino Resort Spa (Reno, Nevada) – score 1.5/5 – A full-service casino resort in Reno with ADA-compliant rooms, wheelchair accessibility throughout, and a relaxing spa…
• Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee) – score 1.5/5 – America's longest-running radio show brings country music to life in a fully wheelchair-accessible historic venue.
• Pullman National Historical Park (Chicago, Illinois) – score 1.5/5 – America's first planned industrial community is now a national park telling the story of workers, architecture, and lab…
• Fort Smith National Historic Site (Fort Smith, Arkansas) – score 1.4/5 – Where the Wild West met federal justice, Fort Smith preserves the courtroom of "Hanging Judge" Parker and the story of…
• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (Atlanta, Georgia) – score 1.4/5 – Walk where Dr. King walked at this powerful Atlanta historic site preserving his birth home, church, and legacy of the…
• Prescott Historic Downtown & Rodeo (Prescott, Arizona) – score 1.3/5 – A walkable Western downtown with historic saloons, courthouse square, and one of the oldest rodeos in the world.
• Rimrock Mall (Billings, Montana) – score 1.3/5 – Montana's largest shopping destination in Billings, featuring over 100 stores with wheelchair-accessible facilities and…
• King of Prussia Mall (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) – score 1.2/5 – America's largest retail destination offers over 400 stores, dining, and entertainment in a fully accessible indoor com…
• Molokaʻi & Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Kauaʻi, Hawaii) – score 1.2/5 – A remote Hawaiian peninsula preserving the story of Kalaupapa's leprosy settlement, surrounded by dramatic sea cliffs a…
• New Harmony State Historic Site (New Harmony, Indiana) – score 1.2/5 – Two bold utopian experiments shaped this riverside Indiana town, where 19th-century architecture and big ideas still in…
• Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (Macon, Georgia) – score 1.1/5 – Ancient earthen mounds rising from central Georgia tell 17,000 years of human history, with improving trail access and…
• Angel Mounds State Historic Site (Evansville, Indiana) – score 1/5 – One of America's best-preserved prehistoric Native American sites, featuring ancient earthen mounds along the Ohio Rive…
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (Collinsville, Illinois) – score 1/5 – Explore the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico, with wheelchair-accessible trails winding through ancient…
• First State National Historic Park (Dover, Delaware) – score 1/5 – Where American democracy began - Delaware's first national park preserves the diverse colonial heritage of the nation's…
• George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (Vincennes, Indiana) – score 1/5 – A striking memorial honoring the Revolutionary War frontier campaign that secured the Northwest Territory for the young…
• Historic German-American town (New Ulm, Minnesota) – score 1/5 – New Ulm, Minnesota - the most German town in America - blends Old World heritage with small-town Midwest charm along th…
• Natchez Historic District & antebellum homes (Natchez, Mississippi) – score 0.9/5 – Natchez's stunning antebellum mansions tell the story of pre-Civil War wealth, with select sites offering wheelchair-ac…
• New Castle Historic District (New Castle, Delaware) – score 0.9/5 – A beautifully preserved Colonial riverside town founded in the 1650s, where centuries of American history line cobblest…
• Tysons Corner Center (McLean, Virginia) – score 0.9/5 – One of America's largest shopping centers, offering a fully accessible retail, dining, and entertainment experience in…
• Big Thunder Gold Mine (Keystone, South Dakota) – score 0.8/5 – Explore a real 1880s gold mine in the Black Hills that's wheelchair and stroller accessible, with guided tours and gold…
• Eureka Springs Historic District (Eureka Springs, Arkansas) – score 0.8/5 – A Victorian village tucked into the Ozark hills, where winding streets and historic stone buildings tell stories spanni…
• Historic lighthouse & rocky shoreline (Pemaquid Point, Maine) – score 0.8/5 – Where Maine's rugged coast meets maritime history, this iconic lighthouse offers accessible paths with stunning ocean v…
• Historic river town & lift bridge (Stillwater, Minnesota) – score 0.8/5 – Stillwater's iconic lift bridge spans the St. Croix River, offering wheelchair-friendly access to stunning views and a…
• Nez Perce National Historical Park (Spalding, Idaho) – score 0.8/5 – Explore 38 sites across four states telling the powerful story of the Nez Perce people, with free admission and accessi…
• Steel Pier (Atlantic City, New Jersey) – score 0.8/5 – Atlantic City's iconic Steel Pier brings classic boardwalk thrills and ocean views to the Jersey Shore, with rides and…
• Washington Square (Tigard, Oregon) – score 0.8/5 – Oregon's premier shopping destination features over 170 stores, diverse dining, and tax-free shopping in the heart of t…
• Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site (Laramie, Wyoming) – score 0.8/5 – Walk the halls of Wyoming's first state penitentiary, built in 1872 and restored as a fascinating museum of frontier ju…
• Merrimack Premium Outlets (Merrimack, New Hampshire) – score 0.6/5 – New Hampshire's premier open-air outlet mall with 100+ stores, a single-level layout, and wheelchair-friendly design th…
• Scandinavian Heritage Park (Minot, North Dakota) – score 0.6/5 – A free outdoor park in Minot celebrating all five Nordic countries, with full wheelchair accessibility and audio tours…
• Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Crow Agency, Montana) – A National Park Service battlefield near Crow Agency, Montana, with accessible parking by the visitor center and a ramp…
• Old Idaho Penitentiary (Boise, Idaho) – Old Idaho Penitentiary is a former state prison in Boise you walk through on your own; the main floors are paved and le…
• U.S. Capitol Visitor Center (Washington, DC) – The entrance for free guided tours of the U.S. Capitol. Tours are accessible, with loaner wheelchairs and an on-demand…