There is no admission to visit Laura’s little house on the prairie but donations toward upkeep and maintenance are accepted. Anyone who ever delighted in the Laura’s stories will enjoy a visit to the place described with such detail in Little House on the Prairie, second of the nine book series.
"It’s a great country, Caroline." Pa said, "But there will be wild Indians and wolves here for many a long day." –
As far as they could see, to the east and to the south, and to the west, nothing was moving on all the vastness of the High Prairie. Only the green grass was rippling in the wind and white clouds drifted in the high, clear sky –fromLittle House on the Prairie.
Those long days ended well before the 21st century began but standing in the doorway of the simple, recreated cabin, it’s easy enough to look out at the prairie and imagine what life was like for a little girl named Laura. The land still rolls out to meet the horizon in gentle sweep, the prairie where the Ingalls family built their home is no longer empty. Trees once found only along the creek now dot the landscape beside farmhouses, fences, and cultivated fields. More than a century has passed since the Ingalls family homesteaded here and civilization has encroached into the prairie.
Near the small community of Wayside, Kansas a small log cabin stands testament to another time. It is the Little House on the Prairie, a Kansas State Historical Site with a reconstructed version of the cabin that Laura’s family called home. It stands in the very spot where the original house was built on the land homesteaded by Charles Ingalls. Generations of children have read about Laura’s life on the Kansas prairies with delight and today visitors of all ages visit the site where the story took place. Despite increased population and other changes, the land itself remains little changed.