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Lots to do in Brandywine Valley

Take some time when staying at the Brandywine River Hotel to explore the many sights and sounds our area of Pennsylvania has to offer.

Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens 6 miles from the hotel

Longwood Gardens is the living legacy of Pierre S. du Pont, whose passion was garden design, horticulture, education and the arts. The gardens comprise over 1,077 acres of 20 outdoor gardens and displays like the one above, when over 100,000 tulips were in bloom. There are also 20 indoor gardens within 4.5 acres of heated greenhouses that make up Longwood’s conservatory, one of the world’s greatest greenhouse structures.

Brandywine River Museum

Brandywine River Museum only 0.3 miles from hotel

The museum, a converted grist mill, houses the world’s premier collection of paintings from three generations of the Wyeth family that called Chadds Ford home.

Brandywine Battlefields

Brandywine Battlefield only 0.5 miles from hotel

Step back into history at the Brandywine Battlefield Park a mile north of the Brandywine River Hotel. The park commemorates the Battle of the Brandywine that took place from Chadds Ford to Dilworthtown on September 11, 1777 culminating with fierce fighting at the Friends Meeting in Dilworthtown where young General Lafayette was wounded.

Chadds Ford Winery

Brandywine Wine Trail tasting tour

The Winery is Pennsylvania’s largest and best known winery and is included on the Brandywine Wine Trail tasting tour. Today winemaker Jim Osborn carries on a thirty-year tradition of locally sourced, quality wines.

Nemours Mansion

Piece of History

The Nemours Mansion and Gardens is a 300-acre country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a classical French mansion in Wilmington, Delaware.

Winterthur Museum

Country estate of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969)

Winterthur (pronounced "winter-tour") is the premier museum of American decorative arts, with its singular collection of 85,000 objects made or used in America between about 1640 and 1860. The collection is displayed in the 175-room house, which is has been maintained to represent how it was when the du Pont family lived there.

Brandywine Antiques

Antique Shopping

This Chadds Ford market features 40 dealers who work cooperatively to sell their antiques and collectibles, much like the antique mini-malls in Lancaster County.