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Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse
Famous Staged Photograph
View of Little Round Top from Devil's Den Stream
Bailey's Irish Creme BruleeWays to Tour Gettysburg
There are at least two ways to tour Gettysburg on your own. The intersection of Baltimore Street (Hwy-97) and Steinwehr Avenue (US-15) is not downtown but it is the center of a tourist area. If you stay in a hotel or B&B near this intersection you can walk to many attractions, including the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Annex, the Ginnie Wade House, the Soldiers' Museum, the Hall of Presidents, the American Civil War Museum (former Wax Museum) and the Lincoln Train Museum. The area is also one end of the Gettysburg Historic Walking Tour that has wayside markers downtown around Lincoln Square and along both sides of Baltimore Street until it reaches Steinwehr Avenue. The three travelogues describe what you can see while walking in these places.
Another way to tour on your own is to do the self-guided auto tour of the battlefield which has stops northwest and south of downtown (including the above-mentioned area). Get a brochure at the new visitors' center or there is an online PDF brochure. You may want to try the View Map button (which has zoom capability). There are three maps in the brochure: an annotated self-guided driving tour of the whole battlefield, a map of the area around the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and a Battle at a Glance map of all three days. The auto tour covers 24 miles and has 16 major stops; however, there are literally hundreds of other interesting places and memorials to see along the way.
