Monticello: what to know if you go

Hour drive from Washington. You’ll want to spend at least three hours there, watching a terrific movie about Jefferson, taking a tour of the house (there are special family tours) and checking out the hands-on exhibits at the visitor center’s Griffin Discovery Room, designed for kids ages 6 to 11. You can take a short bus ride from the visitor center up to the house and back, but if the weather is nice on the day you go, definitely walk back down. It’s less than a mile, and the path takes you past the Jefferson family cemetery and through the woods that Jefferson played in as a child and loved so much throughout his life.

Where: Monticello is at 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, Virginia.

When: It’s open daily, except Christmas. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; tours run throughout the day. (On some days during the summer, it’s open until 7 p.m.)

How much: Tours cost $22 for adults (they’re $17 during the winter) and $8 for kids ages 6 to 11; younger than 6 are free.

For more information: Ask your parents to go to www.monticello.org . Be sure to click on the “families and teachers” section.

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