Grounds and Landscape

Arrowhead’s forty-five acres of fields and forest are available to the public year-round from sunrise to sunset allowing people to experience nature either by hiking and walking, snow shoeing, or cross-country skiing. A variety of scheduled activities such as family snow shoeing and scavenger hunts, bird banding, and cider pressing demonstrations enliven the landscape year-round.

The property includes both a small heirloom apple orchard, an USDA certified pollinator habitat, and a Kestrel nesting box.  Native wildflowers including Purple Trillium, Trout Lily, Wood Anemone, Jack-in-the-Pulpit can be found in the woods, while Buttercup, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Black-eyed Susan are among species found throughout the property.

Arrowhead is home to a wide variety of birds (28 species were recorded and banded in the summer of 2025) including Gray Catbird, American Goldfinch, Orchard Oriole, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Bluebird, Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and many more. White-tailed Deer, North American Black Bear, North American Red Fox, and Eastern Cottontail and among the native mammals who also call Arrowhead home.

A guide to Arrowhead’s grounds is available here  and in the museum shop.

The grounds are open at your own risk. If you bring your dog, you must clean up after them. Arrowhead is both an historic site and a natural habit; please do your absolute best not to disturb the site. Motorized vehicles are allowed only in the driveway and parking lot. Metal detectors are not allowed anywhere on site. 

To read the 2012 research report about Arrowhead’s Cultural Landscape, click here.