葛底斯堡国家军事公园

葛底斯堡的规模非常宏大,你必须要亲眼看到才能相信它是如此雄伟壮阔。游客中心非常友好, 圆形幻画千万不可错过。对于这里你有很多种不同的方式去观赏并体验,相信你在选择的时候会非常困难。你可以搭乘巴士环绕观光,会有专业的导游进行解说,中途也会允许你下车、拍照。你可以雇一个私人的导游给你单独解说,可以自己租车参观。此外,当你开车观光的时候,车里面的音响系统也会有语音的解说。我们甚至还看到两轮自动车在里面行驶。如果在游客中心观看电影,看圆形幻画,参观博物馆,参加旅行团都是要收费的,不过如果你在里面散步或者开车是完全不花钱的。我和老公参加了Hickory Hollow农场骑马之旅,非常有意思。我们鸟瞰到了联盟大道和皮克特冲锋(Pickett's Charge)的景色。我们还参加了一个自助游,游览了战场的剩余部分。路线都有清晰地标注出来,我们对此很欣赏。不过也要来点不一样的路线,比如看看魔鬼洞(Devil's Den),那儿实在是太漂亮了,不过当得知所有的士兵都死在那里也增加了一丝悲伤。我们是10月去的,秋叶非常美,我们拍了很多超美的图片。如果来的话,还建议去市中心的葛底斯堡美国历史博物馆参观,是免费的,里面收场了很多内战以及现代史时期的物品,让我们很震撼。小贴士:战场里面的厕所不多,在游客中心有洗手间,不过我和老公在发现了一个简易厕所,就在联盟大道边上,内急的话可以去那儿。

虽然游客中心(Visitors' Center)有些地方是需要门票的,但是真正的战场是免费游览的。当时恐怖气氛在战场上弥漫了三天之久,但是现在国家公园管理局(national Park Service)加上各地来的志愿者,各退伍军人团体,有北方军,也有南方军,已经把这里变成了一个象征敬畏、纪念和崇高的场所。我建议第一次来的游客要不就雇一位国家公园管理局的导游,要不就买一个自带导向的旅游助手,(通常都是CD播放,同时有一本纸质的导游书和地图),很多地方都能买到,像是亚马逊,eBay,等等,这样才能真正地体验到这个公园所能带给你的。

可以在这里花上一周的时间,不过也没法吸收所有的东西。他们把公园布置地很好,不过他们肯定对里面的礼品店、战争磁带等等感到更骄傲。

葛底斯堡国家军事公园对南北战争历史爱好者是个很棒的地方。你可以按照自己的节奏或者跟团或者跟导游游览战场。我也会推荐骑马参观战场。新的游客中心不错,但是博物馆有点沉静,年轻人或许会觉得乏味。但终究还是值得参观。

到葛底斯堡国家军事公园的经历非常难忘。游客中心就是一个令人印象深刻的博物馆。里面展示着内战时期的一些珍贵的手工制品,同时里面还可以购物,还有一个葛底斯堡战场的360度全景式的风景画幕,作为三维背景。我们在游客中心雇了一位研究葛底斯堡战场的导游,他带我们坐车进行了三个小时的参观,到了重要的景点就会停下来,同时,还会到战场上的纪念碑去参观。之后,我们到了战场旁边的军事陵园,包括林肯进行葛底斯堡演讲的地方。单纯是为了陵园的美丽景色和永恒的感觉,来葛底斯堡探访就非常值得。秋天来这里旅游非常适合,因为树叶开始发红、发黄,给战地增添了别样的美景,同时气温也适宜,不会下雨,游人也不是特别多(因为旅游旺季已经过去了,孩子们也都会学校开始上课了)。很明显能看出来维护这个战场需要大量的人力物力和财力,所有的景观都尽可能保留着1863年7月的原貌。来这里游玩非常有趣!

We go every time we visit the battlefield and learn something new each time. Civil War buffs, this is a must see! The exhibits are really cool and the staff really well informed and helpful.

Can you visit Gettysburg and not walk the battle field? Sure you can,but your crazy if you do. It is so overwhelming to walk the same ground that thousands spent 3 days fighting and dying to decide the fate of our nation. To look out to either side of the field is something you just got to feel for your self to know what I mean

The park is amazing. The preserved battlefield is great, and the history of the monuments adds another dimension. The guides are fantastic, we hired one for a day and the depth of knowledge was incredible. The museum and panorama are well presented. The bookshop has a good and varied stock, and the staff are very helpful. The site is sympathetic with. The landscape.

A place calm and sorro and life!!! A place were you can feel our history was made. To think you can stand were linkon stood.

Certainly a Must Do visit for any history buffs. An amazing exibite. Very interesting and a major part of our history winding down the politically correct war of wars. 600,000 killed, a million or more maimed but we fought in the name of P.C.

Gettysburg has to be one of the best stops in America. Bullet riddled buildings, a national cemetery, many shops and restaurants and a very nice battlefield. This one is for the young and old. I'd give it at least two days.

Be awesome to see re enactors year round (save winter) show battlelines for event & live fire guns from era on Range off site.Must see.Need to tour with VR hood to see battle take shape.

In my lifetime I've watched this park be transformed from a tourist funland to a serious memorial park. Long gone are the hideous observation tower( the only place on the battlefield where you don't have to look at an apparent UFO rising from the ground), the cyclorama ( let's take this grove where hundreds of men died and build a tourist trap there) and the tourist train down the Union line of battle. A bit more dignified now.

Big and Little Round Top; we stood right where Chamberlains 20th Maine Volunteers pulled off their audacious and masterful flanking charge, saving the end of the fishhook shaped Union line, which, had it fallen, would have given Lee the high ground and a huge strategic advantage. We stood there, and also in the mad jumble of boulders down in the Devils Den, then made our way up to Cemetery Ridge, where I stood silent, gazing across at Seminary Ridge, where Lee had his camp, my eyes then following down to see in person that near mythical field where the valiant and doomed 13,000 men under Pickett, Pettigrew, and Andersens command followed orders and marched for nearly a mile, w/ no cover, no way to protect themselves but prayer and faith. Nearly a mile under the withering and ceaseless fury of a thousand guns and cannon manned by the Union forces atop Cemetery Ridge, who had NOT been damaged in the slightest by the 3 hour long cannon salvo hurled at them by the Confederates. Saw the 'High Water mark of the Confederacy' a small monument is there for the Confederate General Armistead, who touched a Union Cannon there before dying from his wounds. Everywhere you turn is another statue, marker, or battle site; The Peach Orchard, The Wheatfield, Little and Big Round Top, The Devils Den..its an amazing place, and within it are condensed the absolutes of what America was to be going forward; a place where the States held power over the people, or would adhere to what the federal government decided and subsume their individual strength to that Federal Government. What it was to be an American, nothing more, and nothing less. We bought the audio tour CD's at the park hq place; they were great. Detailed and well done, not too eggheaded and boring. Very convenient and simple to use; just play the CD in your car as you drive around the Battlefield; put in the disc and select the track that corresponds to the numbers in the handy-dandy little guide map that comes with it! Nathan to it! 620,000 Americans died in the Civil War; in all the wars since then 644,000 Americans have died. Gettysburg alone saw over 50,000 deaths. It is truly hallowed ground, consecrated with the blood of the men who died there. Awe inspiring, and while the region itself is physically idyllic and peaceful, Pennsylvania rolling hills and farm country? The incredible ferocity of the battle that put it on the map is a dichotomy as vast as any in the entire world. Go see it one time in your life, for it is America at its best and worst, at the exact same tie.

Civil war buff or not, this is a site everyone should visit. The Park foundation has done a wonderful job preserving the battlefield and providing informative and clear auto tours. You can drive, walk, ride horseback, or bike to see the miles of this historical and beautiful countryside. We have visited dozens of times and are still moved by it. We learn something new each time. Visit the visitor's center museum and Cylorama first to get a perfect overview of the three days of battles. You can easily spend a few hours here. Then take the auto tour or hire a licensed guide to provide a more personalized experience. Try to go in an "off season" since summers can get pretty crowded.