Fun place to visit. Step back in time. Great place to use your imagination! Check out the gift shop it will make you giggle.

Really cool place to see!!!!!!Also part of HOCUS POCUS was filmed here

So beautiful and historical! The staff was friendly and the price is whatever you choose to donate! I HIGHLY recommend!!!

Quaint little attraction, you walk through at your own pace. The staff is friendly. Nice little look back in time.

My wife and I visited this village in late October 2020. We got some fun pictures since its after peak season (in Massachusetts) and tourism is at a minimum (due to Covid-19). This allowed us to see the village in nearly un-interrupted silence. Its also where they shot opening scenes from the famous Halloween film - Hocus Pocus in 1993.

Entry is $5 which I believe is fair. We walked around for about 10 minutes to view all of the buildings here and take a few photos. l feel like most people visiting are visiting for Hocus Pocus. Still, very beautiful location. I do wish there were more signage or information displayed for people wanting to learn more about what is what here.

Quaint little village. And if you go looking for the Hocus pocus movie you would love this little part.

Pretty cool to see how people lived so many years ago. Inexpensive attraction and next to a park and small beach.

Well kept, very small area, great employees. Thackery Binx house

Really cool to see the village. Only thing better would have been some interactive activities.

Great place to go if in Salem and you wanna see a real piece of history....

We got to explore at our own pace. Very pretty by the water

I was expecting more. Interesting. After standing in line for 45 mins, I expected more than a 5 minute exhibit. Also the website is confusing.

It’s so amazing. And campfire was perfect for the atmosphere!

Super awesome to go and visit the places from hocus pocus

Awesome little glimpse into Salem history, ran my people who care!

A must if you love the Fall, Hocus Pocus, history, and/or unique places

Cool but a tourist trap. Kind of not worth the money, like everything in Salem.

Great place for a walk with your dog or friends everyone is pleasant

Very historic location in Salem with old styled houses that have been maintained to preserve the history. Located in the Forest River Park. The village has a lot of history. It shows how the witches used to live in Salem.

Had a great time with the kiddos. Tour guides were very informative!!!

Meat my wife their 50 Years to the dayNice place to relax and have picnicking

Came here from Vegas to do the tour but it was closed that day due to the rain. Super disappointing.

Needs more funding to keep history alive

Nice little site, enjoyed walking through.

Closed at the moment, probably due to COVID-19, but looks very nice from what is visible and its at an ocean side picnic area. A place you could certainly spend all day if you plan for it.

Awesome to see any time of the year but Halloween is the best time to go

Great self guided tour.

Not worth my time or money.Sorry

Took my son great place for a quick day out

Great visual of 17th century Salem

You could imagine how thrilled I was to visit being a huge Hocus Pocus fan. They opened fairly later in the day (3pm, we tried to go in the morning. But it was so cool to actually get to go inside the houses and see how these people lived. You can really appreciate the architecture behind these houses when visiting. Our guide was super informative. He had a themed outfit and was barefoot! I guess to be with the theme?

Grew up here still live here and still love it here I’ll never move away

A very interesting place to visit and learn about the history of the town. I would highly recommend if traveling near the area to stop by.

Fun to see

My husband and I visited here because 1) I love the history and knowledge you learn about our past but 2) my husband was such a behavioral issue as a kid that he was never calm enough to make it through the entire tour so we took HOURS and soaked in all the knowledge and special tours we could.

Amazing and informative Old Salem!

For you Hocus Pocus movie fans, this is the place they used to film Thackery Binx village.

Cool little place

Really a great place to visit with lots of history and tons of things to do. Youll never be bored in Salem

Beautiful

This place is amazing

Our family wasn’t able to walk around and see the houses!!! Were told that they were setting up for an even at 5:00 but had already been told we could walk freely from 12:30 to 5:00. Not impressed

Looks like a cool place to explore away from the usual haunts of Salem. I plan to go back when they are actually open.

Great atmosphere and knowledge staff!

Really neat location.

Enjoyed the tour.

Are your kids old enough to be interested in history? Salem Pioneer Village is a great part of a day trip. This is a reconstruction built for a film, but well researched and maintained. The location is small and rustic, perched on a pretty spot overlooking Salems harbor. It is small, and easily walked though not great for wheelchairs. Spend an hour or two, then head up the road for other Salem sites like the House of Seven Gables and the various sites related to the witch trials. Parking is limited. I have only been there off season so not sure if parking is free or not, since October is a big time of year in Salem. Wear comfortable shoes. Site is small but gravel paths will be more comfortable for sneakers.

Helpful staff. And love seeing the building used in Hocus Pocus

It would be nice if hours were posted somewhere other than the front gate so people wouldn’t waste their time coming down here only to find out that it’s closed.

A must visit when youre in Salem. Its great to be able to feel like youve stepped back in time, and to appreciate the craftsmanship involved in these early villages.

I cant decide between 2 or 3 stars. It has no set hours of operation. It was closed when we got there. A privacy fence was around it, so we took some pictures of the bay and left.

Looked really authentic and gave you the definite feel of how difficult life was then

Wanted to go for years, finally went for Spice Festival, found it disorganized, uninformative and disappointing. So much could have been done to make this a unique experience. Its just a shame to waste such an opportunity.

Cool place to see how settlers really live. Love the butter churn. New construction going on, cant wait to see what is new. Great actors and also awesome ducks in the nearby pond. Highly recommend you check this out for both tourists and locals alike. Ask for discounts on large group packages. Great for field trips, company trips, etc. Five stars! A+!

Lucked out with a private tour. Excellent information from a committed guide. Really appreciated the opportunity to envision the first years in North America for my ancestors!

Its little and quaint and easy to access with free parking.

Excellent. Both staff members were very knowledgeable and provided an entertaining tour full of a lot of history. So worth going there.

Super fun for Halloween! Go there and then watch Hocus Pocus!!

Snazzy & Historical

Surrounding area is nice, but the village is apparantly just a replica from the 30s. Wasnt open when I went, but not interesting enough to check out again

Very Interesting look back into Pioneer days-authentic cooking-clothing and actual communication with the village.

Great Ballpark nice beaches lots of room for kids to run and a awesome kid playground.

Unfortunately it was close due to construction when my wife and I visited Salam. The nearby park was nice and we took a stroll but I definitely would of liked to check the village out. Pity.

So cute! Not always open but cool to look at anyway, and a nice public park near by.

Went by when it was under construction and place was pretty rough looking. Going to try and go back when its open hopefully.

Love this place, an evocation of what Salem might have looked like in 1630. Off the beaten path, and not well known among tourists, which is unfortunate. Take a break from the touristy downtown and visit Pioneer Village.

Beautiful fall atmosphere.

We did an evening storytelling tour here and it was awesome. All the storytellers were great, but there was one woman in particular that really stood out. My wife and her brother came back later in the evening to do the haunted house-like tour they offer, but they said it was too dark to see most of it.

Wished it was open but still got a birdseye view

Great history in this area.

Not open and phone mailbox is full and the messaesays they are open. Padlock on gate

Cool old structures but also had discussion with village manager.

Be sure to visit with the tour. Neato.

Big disappointment! These people need to get their act together. I called several times (recorded message with Witch House Hours) & emailed (no reply). The website said they had tours at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and said tickets ($6) could be purchased at the gate in Forest River Park or the Witch House. At Witch House they confirmed tour times & said admission was free with Witch Museum ticket ($8.25). We arrived at the gate for the 2:30 tour, others were waiting, nobody ever arrived to give the tour.

Cute little place. Needs a lot of TLC. I helped set up the pumpkins for lanterns in the village as a fundraiser for PBIS. Salem is getting crazy for Halloween

If you do The Witch House tour, ask for the Salem Pioneer Village tour, you will get village tour for free. When we did this tour, our tour guide was the only worker there. He did a fantastic job giving the history, but I thought there would have been much more going on. This is not the really village, this was built in the 1930 to show the history of the area. I still recommend stopping by and doing the tour.

Nice

Not a very realistic replica.

Entirely unprofessional. Agreed to be a venue for an event and then cancelled 4 days prior to the date. Do not recommend.

Disappointed, messy, no living history going on when we went. Could have been really neat. Too bad :(

Very peaceful and relaxing

Love this place. Unfortunately, going to be closed for this summer. People, please clean after your dogs!!!

Very atmospheric and spooky in the fall, but quite small.

Closed.

I really enjoyed their halloween event, but I feel the place needs some tlc. It has lots of potential and interesting history. With some community support it could be a mini plimoth plantation.

Go during the day, cool place

Cuz its a wonderful fabulous place to visit

Amazing history

Great experience to go, but so commercialized.

Beautiful adventure

A must see, if you can find it open. Its always hit or miss for us. Great for the history buff or to see how our pioneer ancestors lived .

Neat experience

Great tour Miss winfree is a great tourist

Dont even waste your money. First none of the employees knew when exactly they opened.Then they opened and the guy informs us that there is no charge just a 3$ donation. Okay seems cool except when you walk in try to use the only bathroom which is a porta potty and it looked liked it should have been emptied months and months ago. Obsolutly disguisting. Then we learn that none of the employees showed up so there was no tour. The village was not up kept and there was trash everywhere! Hard to feel in the moment with Mountain Dew cans. Also no fact cards or people dressed up to explain. Especially since they used this village for hocus pocus they could use so many of these aspects to make a great area instead its a dump.

Very authentic people dressed as 16 hundreds spoke in quaint spech did act in 16 hundreds occupations got a real sense of time period felt I was transported to that time

Will be great once renovation is complete

This is a must do on your Salem visit. The tour guide was amazing and informative. If you like Hocus Pocus this was location they filmed the first scene with Thackery Binx.

Walk thru history