Gettysburg National Military Park (NMP) announces new parking measures will take affect at the Museum and Visitor Center on April 1, 2023. These measures are necessary due to the ongoing road construction on Visitor Center Drive from Taneytown Road to the Visitor Center.NOTE: Parking staff will be onsite to direct visitors to the closest available parking area at the time of their arrival.Visitors will proceed to the next available parking lot, depending on weather conditions. Please see attached map for more details.If recent, and current, weather conditions have been DRY, visitors will follow these directions:
- Visitors will be able to park in the main Museum and Visitor Center parking lot. This lot is referred to as Lot
- When Lot 1 fills up, visitors will be directed to the adjacent Bus parking lot (Lot 2).
- When the Bus parking lot (Lot 2) fills up, visitors will be directed to the grass lots at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road (Lot 3a) and along Taneytown Road (Lot 3b). Visitors will be able to access the Museum and Visitor Center via the walking path that begins at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road.
- When the two grass lots fill up, visitors will be directed to park at the Gettysburg National Cemetery parking lot (Lot 4) along Taneytown Road. Visitors will be able to access the Museum and Visitor Center via the walking path that connects the National Cemetery parking lot to the walking path that begins at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road.
- When the Gettysburg National Cemetery parking lot (Lot 4) fills up, visitors will be encouraged to park along the entire stretch of Hancock Avenue from the Pennsylvania Memorial to the Gettysburg National Cemetery parking lot. Visitors will be able to access the Museum and Visitor Center via the walking path that connects Hancock Avenue near the High Water Mark, Auto Tour Stop 16, down the ridge to the Lydia Lyster house, to the walking path that begins at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road.
These parking measures will continue until the Visitor Center Drive construction project from Taneytown Road to the Visitor Center is completed this summer.
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