Buckner Homestead Historic District, Historic farmstead in Stehekin Valley, Washington.

Buckner Homestead Historic District is a preserved farmstead in the Stehekin Valley with 15 buildings, landscape structures and ruins, and over 50 acres of orchard crossed by hand-dug irrigation ditches. The oldest building is an 1889 log cabin. The site lies within Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and includes a barn, workshop, milk house, smokehouse, root cellar, chicken coop, outhouse, sleeping cabins and sheds.

William Buzzard settled the site in 1889, built a one-story log cabin and cleared land for pasture and crops; he bought the homestead outright in 1903. In 1910 he sold it to William Buckner for $5,000, paid at $50 a month. The Buckners dug over four miles of irrigation ditches by hand in 1911 and planted a 50-acre apple orchard. The National Park Service bought the farm in 1970.

The Buckners named their ranch after themselves, and the family's mark is visible in details like the smokehouse Harry converted into a generator house for electric lights, the playhouse he built for his three daughters, and the concrete swimming pool fed by the irrigation system. Horses still graze the pasture and apples are still picked in autumn.

The homestead lies several miles north of Lake Chelan along the Stehekin River, inside Lake Chelan National Recreation Area; there is no road access, so visitors arrive by boat on the lake, by small aircraft, or on foot via trails. The site is maintained as an interpretive center, and access can be limited by weather and season, so check conditions before setting out.

The National Park Service continues to actively maintain and harvest the historic apple orchards using the original trees planted before 1945. This living tradition keeps the farmstead functioning as it did generations ago rather than serving only as a preserved artifact.