Going to Gettysburg Tomorrow, what's not to miss?

Get a whole lot of peppermint schnapps and have cartman dress up as general lee and stage a re-enactment of the battle, except this time the south wins.

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it is gona be a long ways out of your way, but if you have an extra couple of days, I would really recommend a trip to philadelphia to see the historical shite there along with a stop in lancaster pennsylvania to check out the amish stuff...

pennsylvania is a damn fascinating state....

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I wish I could, but the wedding has me tied up for the week. This was the one side trip we were able to take. I definitely will make it to Philly another time.

Try to hit a game at PNC Park.

It's been years since I was there. They had tours and observation decks. My family spent some time walking to and visiting the monument to the company from Brooklyn, New York in which one of my great great uncles served.

It's every bit as moving as Arlington Cemetery. You won't regret making the detour. Enjoy and be awed.

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Try to hit a game at PNC Park.

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Already on the list. The Cubbies are in town

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go stand on top little round top and in the middle of the union line where pickett's charge was

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I'll look into this. Thanks

My youngest brother and his family lives outside of Hershey (about an hour from Gettysburg). There is also a great golf course there called "The Links at Gettysburg". A lot to do there.

The OP is going to be short on time, so I would guess he will limit the day to the battlefield.

That would be awesome, but it's me, the misses and the 2 year old daughter. So were going to spend the day in the park and town and then head to Pittsburgh in the evening.

We thought about spending a day in Hershey but timing wouldn't work for us.

We will be getting the CD for the auto tour, and I've been told the trip to the top of the observation tower is worth it.

Go the the High Tide marker and read this:

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago."

Faulkner from Intruder in the Dust

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There are little cafes in "Downtown" Gburg for casual non-chain dining.

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Good deal. We'll definitely prefer some local eatery to a chain.


I have my camera and plan on taking a ton of pics. So I'm going to take my time at the park and visit as many sites as possible. It will be a nice break for the little one after 2 days of nonstop driving to get here.

Rented a private guide for a tour and it was awesome. Highly recommend

Also the best part was a night ghost tour. Was soooo cool

We all held lanterns and sat in the attics of different places and the guide told stories. So awesome