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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
      AU$6.59
      AU$2.83 x 1 AdultAU$2.83
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      The previous price was AU$6.59 and current price is AU$2.83
      57% off

      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

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

      Meeting/Redemption Point

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

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