Minnesota
Where the banks of Plum Creek bring Laura Ingalls Wilder’s prairie childhood to life.
Walnut Grove, Minnesota, invites visitors to explore the prairie landscapes and small-town history that inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder’s On the Banks of Plum Creek. Visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, walk along Plum Creek near the site of the Ingalls family’s dugout home, and discover the places and stories that connect this quiet Minnesota community to one of America’s most enduring accounts of pioneer life.
Follow Laura Ingalls Wilder to the banks of Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the Ingalls family lived in a dugout, battled crop failures, and experienced the prairie life that later inspired On the Banks of Plum Creek.