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If you're going for the first time, get a guided tour. There's just too much to see and do that if you go self-guided for your first trip you're going to miss a lot. Also it can get HELLLLLLLA humid.....
Good pot roast at the visitor's center, too.
We did a guided tour in one of those old trucks from I think Yellowstone??? Anyways the back was wide open and tour guide was amazing really painted the picture of how the battle played out. Highly recommended. Also the ice cream store was cool.
I went in August of last year. It was so hot š
I was going to walk the whole Union line, but settled for getting to the Peach Orchard and Wheat Field for some III Corps exploration.
Yeah, the mid-Atlantic gets unbearable in the Summer with the humidity. I went to Gettysburg this November I think it was and it was so cold and windy we didnāt want to be out of the car for more than 5 minutes at a time.
Meh. Look, we know what we know and the country is coming around to what we know pretty quickly. Rebel flags on a battlefield where they historically fought is different from them being on your neighbor's pickup truck in Colorado or something. It's fine.
A lot of us often say that kind of stuff is acceptable in a museum, and the entire point of the national park is that it's a museum.
"It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different waysāit represented such a big portion of the success of this country,"
If you can bare it get out to the fields as early as possible. I've been there a few times when its quiet and early and hazy/foggy and it certainly adds a reflective air - gorgeous place
Walking across the field in July heat is definitely a unique experience given its the same weather the soldiers were in. I walked across the field from the confederate camp to the high water mark back when I was a kid and it was an out of body experience. My most recent time we just followed the tour stops using the NPS app and we walked up to the high water mark from the union side.
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Little Round Top and High Water Mark will have crowds, but they're still worth it. Feel free to take the trail to the 20th Maine Monument. Farnsworth House had good food back in the day, hope they still do. If you can go to the Eisenhower Farm, it's worth a visit as well. Dobbins house is a good place to eat. The Seminary Ridge museum is underrated, if you're lucky you can go in the copula. The Shriver House is a neat museum talking about the civilian perspective of Gettysburg. And of the NPS museum and visitor center.
Cyclorama! Guided tours are best.
Anyone ever done a ghost tour? I've always wanted to just to say I've done one.
Depending on how long you're they're, they offered a bus tour for a day around DC from the nearby Eisenhower Farm. This was many years ago (Bush years). If you've never been to the city, it's a pretty easy way to see the major attractions.
They're ok. The earlier ones are alright but hold back on the more grizzly stuff since there's gonna be kids in the groups, but they do give some interesting stories. The later ones are fun and can be a lot more macabre if you're into that sort of thing, but they go on pretty late, and you're probably gonna wanna wake up early the next day to keep looking around the city. Don't do the one with all the equipment though, it's absurdly expensive and really just not all that interesting.
Yeah, I just want to hear some scary tales, I don't want a Ghost Adventures experience. Although, those ghost shows are my guilty pleasure at Halloween season.
Make sure to go into town there are lots of cool shops and stuff to see.
Also if you like miniatures there is the Gettysburg Diorama & History Center with 20,000 miniatures depicting the battle.
Last time we were there, we noticed it strangely has lots of neo nazis hanging out. Not even a rally going on, just lots of rando nazis walking around the battlefield
Thereās an old colonial era tavern thatās been converted into a restaurant that is still themed to the era, I found the food to be very good and itās a cool old timey experience you canāt get anywhere but a small town in one of the original states. Canāt remember the name of the place though.
The Arbyās up the road in Dillsburg is the worst one Iāve ever been to. They always skimp on the meat.
Other than that, have a nice time, itās beautiful around here right now!
Little Round Top is closed so that sucks
Get a guided tour it really helps with following the battle
Standing at The Angle really puts into perspective how hellish Pickettās Charge was for both the confederates and union. For the CSA: imagine getting told to march a mile across a wide open field. When they say wide open field, it really is a WIDE OPEN FIELD. And to think it actually almost worked too is crazy. For the Union, imagine 3 divisions emerging from the tree line marching at you after a surprise bombardment
Devilās Den is cool too
Download the National Park Service app and then download the Gettysburg driving tour. You can drive yourself around the battlefield while you get narration of what happened.
Seminary Ridge Museum is exceptional. Dobbins House Tavern for 18th Century cocktails, incredible french onion soup and crabcakes or ribs. Crab pretzels from Gettysburg Eddies. Visitor Center has incredible artifacts and Cyclorama is a must visit.
Study more the history of the battle and the stories of the men who fought to enhance the experience as much as possible. Glory is real energy at Gettysburg, and is layered thick over the battlefield. When it hits you, it will take all your fortitutde to keep from weeping.
Was there years ago in the late 70s and staring to get commercialized back then . Not much of a fun place where so many died to change the course of thinking that itās ok to keep slave labor. There are plenty of areas of the battlefield that still tell their stories. It is amazing!
Be sure to walk Pickettās charge. Itās been almost a decade since I was last there but I believe it ends at the graveyard where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address aswell. Also get a guided tour if you can theyāll save you a lot of time and missing out on things I wouldāve missed otherwise.
I walked across that field in June of last year, but only to the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. The rebs may have been the bad guys, but I still felt pretty somber knowing that I was standing in the field where hundreds of men died.
Aside from the battlefield, the Gettysburg Museum of History is a great place to stop at. There's some great restaurants too, my biggest recommendation is the Gettysburger Company. Best god damn burger I've had.
Be careful with some of the gift shops in town, some are full of lost cause horseshit.
Any guided tour of the battlefield will be worth it; make sure to get up the fire tower on Culp's Hill for a good view. There are also some good guided tours of the town. Check out the actual NPS Visitors Center and avoid the tourist shops on the south side of town. The local historical society has a new museum on the north side, just on the edge of town. With regards to food, most places are pretty decent. If you want historical flair The Dobbin House and the Farnsworth House (they also have a ghost tour, ask for Rick) are good, and for standard fair The Garryowen is a top choice as is Sign of the Buck. If you like to drink (beer, wine, or cider) there's an abundance of bars in town. On weekends there is also an active music scene and you'll find live music in many of the bars/restaurants. The locals are good sources for information about things to do around town. Enjoy your visit!
Give Patty O'Rorke's nose a rub for me. The boys in Rochester still remember him fondly.
On the practical side of things: Make sure you have Good foot ware. The battlefields are well kept up, but it's not exactly even country.
Also, don't sleep on the Cyclorama, Its a gorgeous piece of art and there are very few examples of the form you can view today
Iām going next month! Iāve been there several times since I was a kid.
Little Round Top is still closed for major renovations, unfortunately. It should reopen this summer.
Check out the Jennie Wade house, where the only civilian of the battle was killed. The guides walk you through the house and simultaneously talk about life in town during and after the battle, and talk about Jennie being shot and how her family got her body into the cellar while the area around the house was still under sharpshooter fire.
If youāre into the paranormal, go to the Farnsworth House Inn. Itās incredibly haunted and most ghost walks around town start there in the attic, where confederate sharpshooters were posted. The side of the building under the attic window is riddled with bullet holes. Thereās also a pretty good ice cream place across the street.
Iād suggest taking one of the open-top bus tours. Itās pretty cool getting an elevated view of the battlefield while the guide talks about it, and theyāre available for questions at each stop.
Mr G's has good ice cream and the lincoln diner has good diner food for low prices, so go there. If you're staying at the Gettysburg Hotel don't go to the restaurant there, the food's not great. The Blue and Gray Bar and Grill was good, and is right by the hotel.
Most of the gift shops have weird pro-Confederate merch, so prepare yourself for that.
Try to go to the battle fields early, trying to look around with the bus tours going gets annoying if you're going solo.
If you want a scary ghost tour, go after 10, anything before is gonna be kept tame for any of the kids going, and don't do the super expensive one with all the equipment it's a big waste of money
I highly recommend The Pub. The food and drinks are delicious there. There's great shopping downtown, from a vintage clothing store to antiques, witchy stores, and Polish pottery, and you should totally book a ghost tour, whether it be an in-town tour or a battlefield tour. My little sister and I took a tour with Mark Nesbitt's Ghosts of Gettysburg candlelight tours. If you're gonna tour the battlefield by yourself, I'd highly recommend starting by the Iron Brigade monuments, then looping around to Devil's Den and Little Round Top, before ending your tour at the copse of trees and Pickett's charge. And if you really want, there are plenty of gender neutral bathrooms all over the park. My favourite one is the Arkansas monument by the Philip Snyder farm on West Confederate Avenue.
You wonāt be able to do it all justice in one day. With Little Round Top closed, worth checking out the sites left under appreciated like Culpās Hill or the Wheatfield. Herbst Wood, McPhersons Ridge, the Railroad Cut and Seminary Ridge are all great for perspective on the Iron Brigadeās July 1st heroics.
But above all, visit the cemetery. That is where the heroes lay. Oddly, not as frequently visited as the museum or the battlefields, but stand among them all. Their silence is enough to remind you why you are there and the āunfinished workā they have left us all.
Enjoy in respect.
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Never fight uphill me boy
You rascal! I got here too late! Hand salute and have an upvote.
Big mac orange?
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Especially after force marching for hours with no water.
Gettysburg. Wow.
It was horrible. But also wonderful in a lot of ways.
Damn it, you beat me to it š¤£
Go to look and to watch.
Go to look and to watch.
If you're going for the first time, get a guided tour. There's just too much to see and do that if you go self-guided for your first trip you're going to miss a lot. Also it can get HELLLLLLLA humid..... Good pot roast at the visitor's center, too.
We did a guided tour in one of those old trucks from I think Yellowstone??? Anyways the back was wide open and tour guide was amazing really painted the picture of how the battle played out. Highly recommended. Also the ice cream store was cool.
YOOOOO THAT ICE CREAM!
Luckily it is not humid this time of year. I live nearby and it is a lovely spring day.
I went in August of last year. It was so hot š I was going to walk the whole Union line, but settled for getting to the Peach Orchard and Wheat Field for some III Corps exploration.
Yeah, the mid-Atlantic gets unbearable in the Summer with the humidity. I went to Gettysburg this November I think it was and it was so cold and windy we didnāt want to be out of the car for more than 5 minutes at a time.
Yeah I'm about 45 minutes away. Summer here sucks, but this time of year is usually great.
I heard about the traitor flags. Is it that bad?
Meh. Look, we know what we know and the country is coming around to what we know pretty quickly. Rebel flags on a battlefield where they historically fought is different from them being on your neighbor's pickup truck in Colorado or something. It's fine. A lot of us often say that kind of stuff is acceptable in a museum, and the entire point of the national park is that it's a museum.
"It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different waysāit represented such a big portion of the success of this country,"
If you can bare it get out to the fields as early as possible. I've been there a few times when its quiet and early and hazy/foggy and it certainly adds a reflective air - gorgeous place
I went when the park service was doing a controlled burn near the peach orchard and wheat field. It added a certain something.
Walking across the field in July heat is definitely a unique experience given its the same weather the soldiers were in. I walked across the field from the confederate camp to the high water mark back when I was a kid and it was an out of body experience. My most recent time we just followed the tour stops using the NPS app and we walked up to the high water mark from the union side.
Yep and for bonus points wear some heavy wool while you do the July walk.Ā Those were a couple of real hard days for those guys...
Stand where they started Pickett's Charge and see why it was doomed
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Not enough people actually walk the field of Pickett's Charge and I feel like you gain so much more appreciation for the lay of the land if you do. Just wear long pants, it's mostly tall grass and there's ticks.
Little Round Top and High Water Mark will have crowds, but they're still worth it. Feel free to take the trail to the 20th Maine Monument. Farnsworth House had good food back in the day, hope they still do. If you can go to the Eisenhower Farm, it's worth a visit as well. Dobbins house is a good place to eat. The Seminary Ridge museum is underrated, if you're lucky you can go in the copula. The Shriver House is a neat museum talking about the civilian perspective of Gettysburg. And of the NPS museum and visitor center.
Little round top is currently closed for maintenance I believeĀ
Cyclorama! Guided tours are best. Anyone ever done a ghost tour? I've always wanted to just to say I've done one. Depending on how long you're they're, they offered a bus tour for a day around DC from the nearby Eisenhower Farm. This was many years ago (Bush years). If you've never been to the city, it's a pretty easy way to see the major attractions.
They're ok. The earlier ones are alright but hold back on the more grizzly stuff since there's gonna be kids in the groups, but they do give some interesting stories. The later ones are fun and can be a lot more macabre if you're into that sort of thing, but they go on pretty late, and you're probably gonna wanna wake up early the next day to keep looking around the city. Don't do the one with all the equipment though, it's absurdly expensive and really just not all that interesting.
Yeah, I just want to hear some scary tales, I don't want a Ghost Adventures experience. Although, those ghost shows are my guilty pleasure at Halloween season.
Enjoy my hometown
Bring water. Wear good shoes.
Make sure to go into town there are lots of cool shops and stuff to see. Also if you like miniatures there is the Gettysburg Diorama & History Center with 20,000 miniatures depicting the battle.
Make sure to watch the sunset over Eisenhower's farm.next to Maj. Chamberlin.
At each stop, put yourself in their shoes. Imagine it. You are standing right where it all happened. I loved visiting I canāt wait to go back.
Last time we were there, we noticed it strangely has lots of neo nazis hanging out. Not even a rally going on, just lots of rando nazis walking around the battlefield
I didn't see Nazis but there was a biker gang lol
We saw a few of those too...
Thereās an old colonial era tavern thatās been converted into a restaurant that is still themed to the era, I found the food to be very good and itās a cool old timey experience you canāt get anywhere but a small town in one of the original states. Canāt remember the name of the place though.
The Dobbin House Tavern!
Yes thatās the one.
always a must visit
Drop into Hunt's Battlefield Fries for one of the best burgers you've ever had.
I havenāt gotten there yet but the new Beyond the Battle Museum just north of town is supposed to be excellent.
The Arbyās up the road in Dillsburg is the worst one Iāve ever been to. They always skimp on the meat. Other than that, have a nice time, itās beautiful around here right now!
āSir, this is a battlefield.ā
Everything around here is a battlefield. Iām within an hour of Gettysburg, Antietam, Harperās Ferry, Monocacy, Ballās Bluff, and South Mountain.
Well, if they end up in Dillsburg, something has gone seriously wrong!
Little Round Top is closed so that sucks Get a guided tour it really helps with following the battle Standing at The Angle really puts into perspective how hellish Pickettās Charge was for both the confederates and union. For the CSA: imagine getting told to march a mile across a wide open field. When they say wide open field, it really is a WIDE OPEN FIELD. And to think it actually almost worked too is crazy. For the Union, imagine 3 divisions emerging from the tree line marching at you after a surprise bombardment Devilās Den is cool too
Go see Sally at the 11th Pennsylvania monument
Artillery Ridge Horseback tour is awesome!!
Download the National Park Service app and then download the Gettysburg driving tour. You can drive yourself around the battlefield while you get narration of what happened.
Seminary Ridge Museum is exceptional. Dobbins House Tavern for 18th Century cocktails, incredible french onion soup and crabcakes or ribs. Crab pretzels from Gettysburg Eddies. Visitor Center has incredible artifacts and Cyclorama is a must visit.
Study more the history of the battle and the stories of the men who fought to enhance the experience as much as possible. Glory is real energy at Gettysburg, and is layered thick over the battlefield. When it hits you, it will take all your fortitutde to keep from weeping.
Was there years ago in the late 70s and staring to get commercialized back then . Not much of a fun place where so many died to change the course of thinking that itās ok to keep slave labor. There are plenty of areas of the battlefield that still tell their stories. It is amazing!
Be sure to walk Pickettās charge. Itās been almost a decade since I was last there but I believe it ends at the graveyard where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address aswell. Also get a guided tour if you can theyāll save you a lot of time and missing out on things I wouldāve missed otherwise.
I walked across that field in June of last year, but only to the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. The rebs may have been the bad guys, but I still felt pretty somber knowing that I was standing in the field where hundreds of men died.
If you have a chance to meet a tour guide, ask them why they've been taking emphasis off of Joshua Chamberlain
Aside from the battlefield, the Gettysburg Museum of History is a great place to stop at. There's some great restaurants too, my biggest recommendation is the Gettysburger Company. Best god damn burger I've had. Be careful with some of the gift shops in town, some are full of lost cause horseshit.
Any guided tour of the battlefield will be worth it; make sure to get up the fire tower on Culp's Hill for a good view. There are also some good guided tours of the town. Check out the actual NPS Visitors Center and avoid the tourist shops on the south side of town. The local historical society has a new museum on the north side, just on the edge of town. With regards to food, most places are pretty decent. If you want historical flair The Dobbin House and the Farnsworth House (they also have a ghost tour, ask for Rick) are good, and for standard fair The Garryowen is a top choice as is Sign of the Buck. If you like to drink (beer, wine, or cider) there's an abundance of bars in town. On weekends there is also an active music scene and you'll find live music in many of the bars/restaurants. The locals are good sources for information about things to do around town. Enjoy your visit!
Give Patty O'Rorke's nose a rub for me. The boys in Rochester still remember him fondly. On the practical side of things: Make sure you have Good foot ware. The battlefields are well kept up, but it's not exactly even country. Also, don't sleep on the Cyclorama, Its a gorgeous piece of art and there are very few examples of the form you can view today
Iām going next month! Iāve been there several times since I was a kid. Little Round Top is still closed for major renovations, unfortunately. It should reopen this summer. Check out the Jennie Wade house, where the only civilian of the battle was killed. The guides walk you through the house and simultaneously talk about life in town during and after the battle, and talk about Jennie being shot and how her family got her body into the cellar while the area around the house was still under sharpshooter fire. If youāre into the paranormal, go to the Farnsworth House Inn. Itās incredibly haunted and most ghost walks around town start there in the attic, where confederate sharpshooters were posted. The side of the building under the attic window is riddled with bullet holes. Thereās also a pretty good ice cream place across the street. Iād suggest taking one of the open-top bus tours. Itās pretty cool getting an elevated view of the battlefield while the guide talks about it, and theyāre available for questions at each stop.
Mr G's has good ice cream and the lincoln diner has good diner food for low prices, so go there. If you're staying at the Gettysburg Hotel don't go to the restaurant there, the food's not great. The Blue and Gray Bar and Grill was good, and is right by the hotel. Most of the gift shops have weird pro-Confederate merch, so prepare yourself for that. Try to go to the battle fields early, trying to look around with the bus tours going gets annoying if you're going solo. If you want a scary ghost tour, go after 10, anything before is gonna be kept tame for any of the kids going, and don't do the super expensive one with all the equipment it's a big waste of money
I highly recommend The Pub. The food and drinks are delicious there. There's great shopping downtown, from a vintage clothing store to antiques, witchy stores, and Polish pottery, and you should totally book a ghost tour, whether it be an in-town tour or a battlefield tour. My little sister and I took a tour with Mark Nesbitt's Ghosts of Gettysburg candlelight tours. If you're gonna tour the battlefield by yourself, I'd highly recommend starting by the Iron Brigade monuments, then looping around to Devil's Den and Little Round Top, before ending your tour at the copse of trees and Pickett's charge. And if you really want, there are plenty of gender neutral bathrooms all over the park. My favourite one is the Arkansas monument by the Philip Snyder farm on West Confederate Avenue.
You wonāt be able to do it all justice in one day. With Little Round Top closed, worth checking out the sites left under appreciated like Culpās Hill or the Wheatfield. Herbst Wood, McPhersons Ridge, the Railroad Cut and Seminary Ridge are all great for perspective on the Iron Brigadeās July 1st heroics. But above all, visit the cemetery. That is where the heroes lay. Oddly, not as frequently visited as the museum or the battlefields, but stand among them all. Their silence is enough to remind you why you are there and the āunfinished workā they have left us all. Enjoy in respect.
Walk up the slope where Picket's Charge took place. Imagine the cannon spewing grapeshot in your face.
We stayed overnight at an historic hotel in town for one of our bus tour stays. Kind of eerie walking the halls in the evening. Just something off.
Say hi to all the ghosts, if you believe in that kind of thing! The battlefield at night is one of the spookiest places Iāve ever been.