Fifty individual structures within the furnace community are listed on the National Register of Historic Places registration. The park's museum collection contains over 300,000 artifacts related to the site's history. Eastern deciduous forest covers 635 acres of the park, agricultural use includes 135 acres in twelve fields, while the historic and developed areas make up the remaining 78 acres. Our resources include a five acre apple orchard, trails, streams, wetlands and pastures.
Wildlife includes white-tailed deer, small mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
The natural and cultural resources of Hopewell Furnace NHS are closely linked by virtue of the nature of historic iron production. In keeping with the mandates of Congress and National Park Service policy, Hopewell Furnace NHS is committed to preserving and interpreting the site to represent an ironmaking community and a significant way of life and work in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.