The Great American Road Trip Challenge~4.5 years · 48 states · one loop

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Day115

Day 115 — The Battlefield — Gettysburg

Full day5h 30m planned

70Liberty, Ellis Island & Lower Manhattan 71Ground Zero & the new downtown 72Midtown Icons 73The Met & Central Park 74Free Day 75Broadway & late laughs 76The Village & the High Line 77Brooklyn 78Upper West Side 79Free Day 80Empire State & Herald Square 81Lower East Side & Chinatown 82Harlem & the Cloisters 83Free Day 84Out to the East End 85Montauk & the End 86The Hamptons & North Fork wine 87Back west & up the Hudson 88Hyde Park 89Storm King & the river 90West Point & Cold Spring 91Into the Catskills 92Woodstock & Kaaterskill Falls 93North to the capital 94The Capital 95South into New Jersey 96Princeton 97Trenton & Washington's Crossing 98Down the shore 99Atlantic City 100Cape May 101Across to Philadelphia 102Independence & Old City 103The Parkway museums 104Markets & the cheesesteak wars 105Penitentiary & science 106Free Day 107North to Scranton 108Steam & coal 109South to Amish country 110Amish Country 111Hershey & the Strasburg Rail Road 112To the capital 113The Capitol & the Civil War 114South to Gettysburg 115The Battlefield 116Little Round Top & the Address 117Into Delaware 118The du Pont estates 119Longwood & the riverfront 120South to Dover 121The First State's capital 122Rehoboth Beach 123Across the bay to Baltimore 124The Inner Harbor 125Fort McHenry & Fell's Point 126Art, oddity & crabs 127Down to Annapolis 128The Naval Academy & the State House 129On the Chesapeake 130Out to the ocean 131The Boardwalk 132Assateague's wild horses 133Northwest to Frederick 134Antietam & Frederick 135South to Mount Vernon 136Washington's Home 137The National Mall & Monuments 138Smithsonian I 139Smithsonian II 140Capitol Hill 141The White House & Ford's Theatre 142Free Day 143Arlington 144Georgetown & the Tidal Basin 145South into Virginia

Three days of 1863, told across the fields.

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM· 2h 30m
Museum & the Gettysburg CycloramaMuseums & HistoryAnchor
Start here — the film, the 1884 cyclorama painting of Pickett's Charge, and the museum before you take the field.
1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, PA
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM· 3h
Battlefield auto tour with a guideGuided ToursAnchor
Hire a licensed battlefield guide to ride your car through the 3-day battle — the best way to grasp what happened here.
Bring: comfortable shoes
Gettysburg, PA