Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park — Attraction in Fredericksburg

Update* 7/30/2022

My family and I came back!

The staff was friendly and helpful. It's cool to actually see the history of what I read back in school. It's one thing to read it and be bored with it, lol.

It's another thing to see the history in person. We watched the movie 1st, then walked through the exhibits before walking around outside.

To see the damage and carnage that was left behind in the movie was crazy. To learn that 1000 soldiers died per hour during the Civil War is crazy. To walk in soldier after soldier just to meet your demise is crazy.

The visitor center was cool, and can't wait to check out more history in the surrounding areas and the rest of Fredericksburg!

7/16/2022 I went there for information expecting it to be offices, but it's information and a museum. Didn't get to check it out, but I'm excited to teach my kids the history. Will be going back. The staff at the desk was very friendly and...

After getting my oil changed in Richmond , I was driving north towards home and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park as the location wasn’t that far off the highway. I started my journey at the Stonewall Shrine a little south of the National Park. Parking was a breeze even though I arrived when a tourist group began their tour. My trusty companion and I walked on the very dugouts the stonewall was built. Raw , real history in the flesh happened at the various spots I walked to learn more about our nations past wars . It wasn’t crowded and best of all it everything was free . A chance to learn about how the world thought and acted upon is never a disappointment . I couldn’t visit the cemetery for obvious reasons but I could feel a sense of pain and pride soldiers endured back then as a veteran myself who can relate to hardships . 10/10 recommended park to...

Unless you take the tour, there really is not much to see on the self-paced tour; however, there are information placards along the trail. Much of the battlefield is now a residential area.

We visited this location in 2006 and took the tour. We recently stopped again in 2025, and not much has changed, so we just walked along the trail ourselves without taking the tour in the heat.

It appeared that the grounds were being taken care of, and there were a lot of people walking around.

We took our time and pursued our own interests. We wanted to go back and focus more on the sunken road this time.

If you are in Fredericksburg, you need to add this location as a stop so that you can find out the history about the battles and...