Gettysburg National Military Park announces new parking measures will take effect at the Museum & Visitor Center Saturday, April 1, 2023. These measures are necessary due to the ongoing road construction on Visitor Center Drive from Taneytown Road to the Museum & Visitor Center.
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. View the new parking 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 & Visitor Center parking lot. This lot is referred to as Lot 1 on the map.
- When Lot 1 fills up, visitors will be directed to the adjacent Bus parking lot (Lot 2 on the map).
- 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 on the map) and along Taneytown Road (Lot 3b on the map). Visitors can access the Museum & Visitor Center via the walking path that begins at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road.
- When the two grass lots (3a and 3b) fill up, visitors will be directed to park at the Gettysburg National Cemetery parking lot (Lot 4 on the map) along Taneytown Road. Visitors can access the Museum & 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 can access the Museum & 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 Leister house, to the walking path that begins at the corner of Hunt Avenue and Taneytown Road.
A free shuttle bus will run between the Museum & Visitor Center, the Hunt Avenue grass lot (Lot 3a), the Gettysburg National Cemetery parking lots (Lot 4) and back to the Museum & Visitor Center. The shuttle will operate on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. only. During wet conditions, the shuttle will bypass Lot 3a along Hunt Avenue.
If recent, and current, weather conditions have been wet, only paved parking areas will be available, to include Lots 1, 2, 4 and Hancock Avenue.
These parking measures will continue until the construction project on Visitor Center Drive from Taneytown Road to the Museum & Visitor Center is completed.
Read the National Park Service press release.
Access the new temporary parking map.