Ulster American Folk Park

Well worth the visit, a great day out. The park is well laid out, making you feel like you've gone back in time. The staff are super friendly and they are very good at being the time period characters providing lots of fantastic information. The gift shop has a good selection of books and there is a cafe for refreshments or a treat after walking around the park.

A lovely experience of life in Ireland, the journey to America, and then life in America. The staff were all too happy to describe the way of life at the time. Many original buildings and artifacts are on display, and the park itself is lush and green. Highly recommend.

Amazing set up from start to finish. So informative and lovely to walk around. Staff were all amazing and the food in the cafe was delicious

Excellent day out, very easy to get to and extremely helpful staff. Lots to see and do and all the houses have someone in them to give you lots of information about the history. Called into the old style shop and met by an extremely friendly and very upbeat man serving and he was so welcoming and also very funny. We went to the saddlery shop and the very kind man working in it gave a leather bracelet to my son which was just lovely. I would highly recommend this place to everyone, we had a fantastic day out. We had not booked tickets but this did not matter as we still got in very quickly and didn't have to queue.

Visited in June 2023 and again in October. It was an amazing experience visiting the park, with friendly and helpful staff. Felt very authentic when you walked trough the hamlets and the different areas. Well worth a visit if you are in Northern Ireland. P.S A special thanks to Joanne for her assistance

A brilliant experience to go to. We went at the end of December and it was obvious that the place wasn't as active as it would be in summer but despite this, it was still a very good and very informative experience. I really enjoyed learning about the people of Ulster and their experiences of moving to America in the 1800s and how they lives differed in the new world. The staff are clearly very passionate and knowledgeable and we're very happy to engage with the children and answer questions we had. Will definitely go again when we are next in the area.

Visited 03/01/2021 - booked online (gift aid tickets purchased to support) even though weather wasn’t great, the reception team and the indoor elements were great to start off the visit. Then three themes to visit from old world to the journey and then new world. We had a pram with us and I’d say 95% of the houses/buildings have accessible entrances if standard entrance has just steps. The volunteers/staff are super friendly and we even got treated to some fruit loaf and spiced pumpkin bread as we went around. The visitor centre also has a gift shop area and also a cafe area (a hint if you want a jacket potato they take 6 minutes each and can’t be done more than one at a time, cafe staff were busy and apologetic about wait) I would highly recommend the hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows. Definitely worth visiting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Absolutely fantastic place when it's not Halloween but we also go every Halloween and the show they put on is brilliant, storytelling, cooking, talks, music and dancing , games for the kids and that's not including all the walking about visiting all the areas in the park , highly highly recommended, we all love it as a family from mum and dad to 16 Yr old 12yr old to 6 Yr old! If you've not been especially at Halloween you are missing out !

We enjoyed a really fantastic day together here at the folk park, met up with another family of 4, so we had a big gang of 8 walking together through the park, in pouring rain, and it was a perfect day! We had children ages 6-15 and each one thought it was fascinating, the adults, too. It went on a bit too long for me- I was so surprised how many stops there were on the tour- and I ran out of stream! So come well-rested and prepared with good walking shoes and an umbrella, if needed. Cute gift shop. Very nice café. Loved it! Highly

It's been so long since we were here last that we'd forgotten almost all of it. Maybe it's just a series of senior moments but I'll tell you what it's superb and a great way to spend 3 or more hours. There's no down side to this place. This is a superb living park where you walk through 18th & 19th century thatched cottages, a blacksmiths forge, a school house, a Roman Catholic Church, a Meeting House, a bank, general stores, barns, log cabins, you'll board a ship (to go from Ireland to America) meet the captain and you'll meet other delightful costumed characters who demonstrate traditional crafts, tell real stories. They are very likely to share good food with you. We had pumpkin pie, a molasses based shoo fly pie, apple pie, fruit cake and other goodies. Many of the buildings were dismantled from their original places in Ireland & America and re-built here. The influential Mellon family feature (banking, oil, steel and shares in HJ Heinz & General Motors) as does the Campbell family. Both families are originally from the area so further adding to the authenticity of the park. There are 44 separate outdoor places to go visit in addition to the exhibitions inside and notably they have a very good Titanic exhibition. So a dry day is essential or at least a dry half day. There's also a very good cafe with tasty food rather than the rubbish a lot of places serve up these days. In fact if I was close by I'd go here to eat without going into the folk park.

Seriously interesting. Wish we had more time to wonder about. I thought the kids, aged five and nine, would be bored, but they loved it. Great historic information for the grown-ups, with enough to keep the little ones occupied.

We tend to go here every year im getting a bit bored of it as its the same thing year after year the novelty has worn off as they havent added to it in the past few years. its about ulster farmers/people and there immigration to the new world america and how they becaqme settlers there. im more into my ulster scots thought with ulster scots being so big here now the might have brought a bit of that into the early bit. graet events throughout the year check out local press for details and the imformation they provide does entertain children and of course the american vistors.

Brilliant facility and great for families, goup's of friends and the young n' old!