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A self-guided audio tour of Gettysburg National Military Park, telling the battle of July 1 to 3, 1863 at the places it was fought. It starts at the Museum and Visitor Center with the two armies and their commanders, follows the sixteen stops of the park's auto tour route, about twenty-four miles, and adds eight places beyond it. On the first day: McPherson Ridge, where the battle began, the Railroad Cut, where the 6th Wisconsin took two of Davis's regiments prisoner, Oak Hill, Oak Ridge and Barlow Knoll, where the Union line north of town gave way. On the second: Seminary Ridge, Warfield Ridge, Little Round Top, Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Plum Run, the gap in the Union center that the 1st Minnesota was thrown into, Culp's Hill and Spangler's Spring, and Meade's Headquarters, where his generals agreed to stay and fight. On the third: the High Water Mark, the ground Pickett's Charge was aimed at, and the cavalry fights at South Cavalry Field and East Cavalry Field. Where the men who fought here left their own words, a second voice reads them. It ends at the Spangler farm field hospital and in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, with what the three days cost and what they decided. Drive it, stopping at the pull-offs, or walk it a part at a time; on foot you get more out of it. The order is a suggestion: go at your own pace and take the stops in any order. A troop-position map, drawn from the Bachelder survey of the field published in 1876, shows where the units stood and how they moved; it moves to the day and hour of each battle stop as the narration plays. Download the tour once and the narration and the map both work with no signal on the field.
26 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 108 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 9 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Museum and Visitor Center, McPherson Ridge, Railroad Cut, Eternal Light Peace Memorial, Oak Ridge, Barlow Knoll, North Carolina Monument, Virginia Memorial, Pitzer Woods.
Warfield Ridge, South Cavalry Field, Little Round Top, Devil's Den, The Wheatfield, The Peach Orchard, Plum Run, Pennsylvania Memorial.
Spangler's Spring, Culp's Hill, East Cemetery Hill, East Cavalry Field, The High Water Mark, Meade's Headquarters, George Spangler Farm Field Hospital, Soldiers' National Cemetery, The Cost and the Result.
Where the battle began, at about eight on the morning of July 1, 1863, when Buford's Union cavalry met Heth's Confederate infantry on the Chambersburg Pike.
Where the 6th Wisconsin, the 95th New York and the 14th Brooklyn charged on the morning of July 1 and took two of Davis's regiments prisoner in the cut.
The left end of the Union line on July 2, undefended when Longstreet's attack began, until Warren saw the danger and Vincent's brigade arrived minutes ahead of Hood's Texans and Alabamians.
The field in the middle of Sickles's advanced line that changed hands again and again on the evening of July 2, leaving more than 4,000 dead and wounded.
The copse of trees and the Angle on Cemetery Ridge, the landmark some 12,000 Confederates crossed the fields toward on July 3.
The boulders below Little Round Top, held by Ward's brigade until Hood's Confederates drove it off on July 2 and took three Union guns.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 26 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 26 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Gettysburg Battlefield — the Three Days, Stop by Stop, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
26 narration points, including Museum and Visitor Center, McPherson Ridge, Railroad Cut, Eternal Light Peace Memorial and Oak Ridge. That is about 44 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~3–4 hours by car at your own pace; longer on foot total, but you walk at your own pace. 26 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.