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Gettysburg Self-Guided Tour: Walk America's Turning Point

By CloudGuide S.L
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$8 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Explore the most consequential battlefield in American history with our self-guided driving and walking audio tour, covering 40 stops across the three bloodiest days of the Civil War at your own pace. Drive the National Park Service Auto Tour route through 19 miles of hallowed ground, then walk where the soldiers fought — from the first cavalry clash at McPherson Ridge to the stone wall where Pickett's Charge shattered the Confederacy's last hope. Stand on Little Round Top where Chamberlain's bayonet charge saved the Union flank, peer into the boulder maze of Devil's Den, cross the mile of open ground that 12,000 men walked into devastating fire, and visit the National Cemetery where Lincoln's 272-word Gettysburg Address redefined what America means. Audio plays at each location and works fully offline — no cell service needed. The battlefield is free and open year-round. After this tour, Gettysburg will never be just a chapter in a textbook again.

Activity location

  • Gettysburg Heritage Center
    • 297 Steinwehr Ave,
    • 17325-2815, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Gettysburg Heritage Center
    • 297 Steinwehr Avenue
    • 17325, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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Gettysburg Self-Guided Tour: Walk America's Turning Point

  • Activity duration is 8 hours and 30 minutes8h 30m
    8h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$7.83 x 1 AdultNZ$7.83
Total
Price is NZ$7.83

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professionally narrated audio guide with 40 stops covering all major battle sites
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Digital Map: no cell service needed on the battlefield
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Self-guided walking tour, fully on the app — explore at your own pace
  • What's includedWhat's included
    NO live guide or rental equipment provided — please bring your own smartphone and headphones
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bonus driving tour loop: extend the experience by car
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Private transport
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Admission fees, live guide, headphones, transport, parking, food/drinks, internet access and rentals

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Gettysburg Heritage Center

  • 1h
Stand where the first shots of the Battle of Gettysburg were fired on the morning of July 1, 1863. Brigadier General John Buford's Union cavalry dismounted and held this ridge against a much larger Confederate force, buying crucial hours for the rest of the army to arrive. His decision to fight rather than retreat shaped the entire three-day battle.

United Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg PA campus

  • 1h
The cupola atop the Lutheran Theological Seminary served as an observation post for both armies during the first day's fighting. Union General John Reynolds was killed nearby while directing his troops — the highest-ranking officer killed at Gettysburg. The seminary later became a Confederate field hospital overflowing with wounded from both sides.

Eternal Light Peace Memorial

  • 15m
Dedicated in 1938 on the 75th anniversary of the battle, this memorial was built by veterans from both sides as a symbol of reconciliation. An eternal flame burns atop the monument, and elderly former enemies shook hands across the stone wall at its dedication — a moment of healing seventy-five years in the making.

Virginia Memorial

  • 15m
Robert E. Lee sits astride his horse Traveller atop the largest Confederate monument on the battlefield, gazing across the mile of open ground his soldiers would cross during Pickett's Charge. Seminary Ridge served as the Confederate main line for the final two days of battle — Lee's headquarters lay just behind this position.

Devils Den

  • 30m
Walk among massive boulders where sharpshooters hid and close-quarters combat raged unlike anywhere else on the battlefield. Confederate soldiers clambered over house-sized rocks while Union marksmen fired from concealed positions above in a chaotic, three-dimensional fight that defied conventional Civil War tactics.

Little Round Top

  • 30m
Climb the rocky hill where Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine launched a desperate bayonet charge downhill that saved the Union left flank in one of the war's most dramatic moments. Out of ammunition and facing annihilation, Chamberlain ordered the charge that has become the stuff of American legend.

The Wheatfield

  • 30m
Stand in the field that changed hands six times in a single afternoon, consuming over four thousand casualties as waves of attackers and defenders surged back and forth in some of the most confused and savage fighting of the entire war. The wheat was trampled into bloody mud by nightfall.

The Peach Orchard

  • 30m
Visit the exposed salient where General Daniel Sickles' unauthorised advance nearly lost the battle for the Union and cost him his leg to a cannonball. Sickles later had the leg bone displayed at the Army Medical Museum in Washington and reportedly visited it every year on the anniversary of the amputation.

91st Pennsylvania Monument

  • 30m
The largest monument on the battlefield, this domed granite memorial lists the name of every Pennsylvania soldier who fought at Gettysburg — over 34,000 names engraved in bronze tablets. Climb to the observation deck for a sweeping panoramic view of the battlefield's central positions.

Location

Activity location

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    Gettysburg Heritage Center
    • 297 Steinwehr Ave,
    • 17325-2815, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Gettysburg Heritage Center
    • 297 Steinwehr Avenue
    • 17325, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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