Our Favorite Stops on the Gettysburg National Military Park Tour - Gettysburg Day 2

GOODMORNING GETTYSBURG!

After a night of no sleep – because Lucia is still on night schedule and Marshmellow takes up the whole bed – we get up, have coffee, take our showers and head into town.

Knowing the first thing we want to see is the battlefields, we head straight to the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitors Center.  After parking and snuggling Marshmellow into the backpack, we learned that pets are not allowed, so I went into the visitors building alone to see what was available for us.

I walked out with lunch and an audio tour CD.  There is a cyclorama that we heard is a MUST-SEE but we will have to come back and do that later in the week, on a day when we leave Marshmellow in the camper. We devoured the burgers and then headed out in our truck for the 90 minute self guided tour.

There are 16 stops on the tour and if I had to pick only one favorite, it would be the Soldiers’ National Cemetery.  The way I see it, if you take the time to visit this historic park, it would be senseless not to stop and pay respect to the fallen soldiers – they are the whole reason you are visiting.

Devil’s Den is part of the tour, but not one of the stops and that was our ultimate favorite part of the whole 90-minute ride.  We climbed the boulders and took some fun photos of each other.

After the tour, we stopped in town for dinner at The Avenue Restaurant.  The diner atmosphere offered a quick meal with friendly service.  The homestyle cooking was a warm welcome after our day of rainy drizzle.  Marshmellow was exhausted and didn’t mind waiting in his comfy bed in the truck.

One last stop before returning to the camper was to see a famously haunted covered bridge – Sachs Covered Bridge on Waterworks Road.  The 100’ truss covered pedestrian only bridge was built in 1854 and was designated as Pennsylvania’s “most historic bridge” in 1938.  And no, we didn’t see any ghosts or find any strange white blurs on our photos.

Things to be grateful for today: Lucia says “Having the opportunity to stand on hollowed ground in a place where history was made.”

Today’s tally: $99.39

$12.72  Burgers at National Park for lunch
$6.21  Water and drinks at National Park
$23.00 gas
$24.31 CD audio tour
$33.15 Dinner at The Avenue Restaurant

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