The Little House on the Prairie home site near Independence offers visitors and locals alike the chance to step back in time and experience the Kansas plains like a homesteader.

 Site director Rhonda Steven says it features the family home was discovered in 1977 after local research.

Steven says the site features replica buildings and buildings from a similar time period.

The Little House site is located 13 miles southwest of Independence on US 75 and remains open through Halloween on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 5pm. It will reopen in March.