This unit consists of Johnson's boyhood home and the Johnson settlement, home of LBJ's grandparents. It is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily year round. Admission is free. National Park Service bus tours depart from the state park's visitor center. The state park site is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily year round.
Admission is free.
The Lyndon Johnson Museum and Library is on the University of Texas campus in Austin, roughly 50 miles from Johnson City. Here one can see a reproduction of the Oval Office, Lady Bird's wedding gown, samples of political ephemera and exhibits on the Vietnam War and the Great Society. Family ties also led Lyndon Johnson to his most famous home. In 1951, he and Lady Bird purchased the sprawling ranch near his birthplace from his widowed aunt. This was the big house on the river.