Getting a guide for Gettysburg

[DC1221]

Visiting October 24-26, and when I called earlier this week to reserve a guide for those dates they told me they're booked.

Would I have a good chance of getting a guide by showing up to the visitor center early on Saturday? Not looking for anything highly specialized, just want to cover the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield.

 

[infomanpa]

Visiting October 24-26, and when I called earlier this week to reserve a guide for those dates they told me they're booked.

Would I have a good chance of getting a guide by showing up to the visitor center early on Saturday? Not looking for anything highly specialized, just want to cover the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield.

I'm surprised that they are all booked so late in the season.

 

[lelliott19]

@pmuskett do you know of anyone available these dates?

 

[pmuskett]

This is our second busy season. It is hard to find a guide this time of year. This will run until Remembrance Day weekend in November. Then we get to rest for the spring.

I am slammed until the end of the month. BUT give the Gettysburg Foundation a call. They may be able to help find a guide for those dates.

- Gettysburg Battlefield Tours

Tour the Gettysburg battlefield with a Licensed Battlefield Guide in your car or by motor coach. Hear the stories, experience the history, walk the hallowed ground.

www.gettysburgfoundation.org

 

[DC1221]

This is our second busy season. It is hard to find a guide this time of year. This will run until Remembrance Day weekend in November. Then we get to rest for the spring.

I am slammed until the end of the month. BUT give the Gettysburg Foundation a call. They may be able to help find a guide for those dates.

- Gettysburg Battlefield Tours

Tour the Gettysburg battlefield with a Licensed Battlefield Guide in your car or by motor coach. Hear the stories, experience the history, walk the hallowed ground.

www.gettysburgfoundation.org

Thanks for the tip, I'll give them a call first thing tomorrow morning.

 

[DC1221]

This is our second busy season. It is hard to find a guide this time of year. This will run until Remembrance Day weekend in November. Then we get to rest for the spring.

I am slammed until the end of the month. BUT give the Gettysburg Foundation a call. They may be able to help find a guide for those dates.

- Gettysburg Battlefield Tours

Tour the Gettysburg battlefield with a Licensed Battlefield Guide in your car or by motor coach. Hear the stories, experience the history, walk the hallowed ground.

www.gettysburgfoundation.org

Thanks for the recommendation. The Gettysburg Foundation was able to reserve a guide for me for my preferred day, time, and topic!

 

[61Cadillac]

Is the government shut down effecting anything at the park?

 

[DC1221]

Is the government shut down effecting anything at the park?

Doesn't appear to be. I'm staying at one of the NPS-owned farmhouses and that reservation has been confirmed by staff. The visitor center isn't owned or run by NPS so that's up and running as well.

 

[bdtex]

Thanks for the recommendation. The Gettysburg Foundation was able to reserve a guide for me for my preferred day, time, and topic!

That's awesome. Good information in this thread.

 

[61Cadillac]

Doesn't appear to be. I'm staying at one of the NPS-owned farmhouses and that reservation has been confirmed by staff. The visitor center isn't owned or run by NPS so that's up and running as well.

Now I have to ask, how do you get to stay in a NPS owned farm house???!!!???

 

[Odessa1]

I'm surprised that they are all booked so late in the season.

I have a Air B in downtown Gettysburg and its completely booked this month.

 

[DrumBob]

I was just in Gettysburg, and the only thing I found closed was the Pennsylvania monument due to aggressive wasps!

 

[DC1221]

Now I have to ask, how do you get to stay in a NPS owned farm house???!!!???

Stay at the Historic Bushman House - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Stay at the Historic Slyder Farmhouse - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

It looks like they'll be making the Rose farmhouse available at some point in the future as well.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

This is our second busy season. It is hard to find a guide this time of year. This will run until Remembrance Day weekend in November. Then we get to rest for the spring.

I never would have guessed October was a busy time at Gettysburg. I think of tourism this time of year as entirely leaf peepers and Halloween/haunted stuff.

 

[rpkennedy]

I never would have guessed October was a busy time at Gettysburg. I think of tourism this time of year as entirely leaf peepers and Halloween/haunted stuff.

My wife and I were in town last week and there were a ton of busses going around the park. It was busy, no question.

Ryan

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

My wife and I were in town last week and there were a ton of busses going around the park. It was busy, no question.

When I was in the park on Tuesday morning this week it seemed like lot of bus tours and a lot of personal tours (LBG with 1-2 visitors) but not much besides that.

 

[rpkennedy]

When I was in the park on Tuesday morning this week it seemed like lot of bus tours and a lot of personal tours (LBG with 1-2 visitors) but not much besides that.

Our experience was the same.

Ryan

 

[Odessa1]

I never would have guessed October was a busy time at Gettysburg. I think of tourism this time of year as entirely leaf peepers and Halloween/haunted stuff.

Apple harvest festival's