The park encompasses 15 acres (6.1 ha) and features a reconstruction of Fort Harrod, the first permanent American settlement in the state of Kentucky.

[3] The fort was named after James Harrod, who led an early party of settlers into Kentucky.

[4] The park features several attractions: the replica of the old fort, the Mansion Museum, the George Rogers Clark Federal Monument, Lincoln Marriage Temple, and oldest cemetery west of the Alleghenies.

)[citation needed] The Mansion Museum is a Greek Revival home that contains American Civil War artifacts, a McIntosh gun collection, paintings, documents, music collections, Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and Native American artifacts.

In 2023, the park hosted the "Sleepy Hollow Experience" which was a haunted exhibit detailing the ghost story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

[10] Multiple county court meetings were held in the Harrodsburg courthouse between September 22, 1789, and April 27, 1790.