Reservations

Reservations for guide services can be made in advance. If you know when you will be visiting the park and desire to guarantee the services of your own personal guide for you or your family, be certain to make arrangements well in advance. The best way to fo this is to:

Contact the ALBG directly .................... 717-337-1709

Please call 717-337-1709 for reservations. This phone is answered when someone is working in the guide office. We have no full time office employees and at any given time guides will be out on the field conducting parties on tours. More likely, you will have to leave a message on the organization's answering machine. It is checked daily and someone from the Association will be back in touch to finalize your arrangements - generally the same evening you call. Please leave your contact information as well as what day you are planning on touring and any special requests such as:

Length of tour if longer than the normal two hour duration.
Special focus - concentrate on specific actions, units, events of the battle.
Number of participants.

Our rates for personal guided tours of the Gettysburg battlefield are set by the Federal Government:

$55 for 1 to 6 people.

$75 for 7 to 15 people.

$120 for 16 people and up.

This fee covers the total number of people specified above on a comprehensive two-hour tour. Additional hours may be added as part of the reservation at a prorated hourly fee ($27.50 for 1-6; $37.50 for 7-15; $60.00 per hour for 16 and up). The two hour tour is standard but many opt for longer three hour, four hour, and occasionally all-day tours.

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The National Park Service has allowed their management partner, the Gettysburg Foundation, to handle Licensed Guide Services for the Visitor Center complex. In return the Foundation is permitted to add a ticketing surcharge of $10 per reservation on top of the guide fee. If you hire one of our guides at the visitor center for a car of five people the charge will be $65. That same car tour when arranged directly with ALBG at 717-337-1709 will cost $55. - the surcharge does not apply!

Other considerations:

Tour requests less than 48 hours in advance of your requested time will be nearly impossible to fill as guide's schedules fill up quickly. Arrange to make your reservation as far in advance as possible.

Guide reservations are for personal tours in YOUR VEHICLE. There must be room in that vehicle to safely accomodate the guide as well as all members of your party.

Upon request, your guide will drive your vehicle to allow you maximum opportunity to look around and actually see the battlefield without worrying about traffic. There is no additional charge for this service.

Name request for a specific guide will be honored when possible. Should the named guide not be available another will be contacted.

Tour fees are established annually by the US Department of the Interior / National Park Service. This fee is payable directly to the individual guide at the time of the tour. Gratuities are at your discretion.

Only officially tested and licensed guide are legally permitted to conduct paid tours of the battlefield. All such individuals are required to wear the badge of the LBG (depicted above). Guides hired through out office OR through the National Park Visitor Center will be wearing this badge.

Please note that we can ONLY accept reservations for individuals and commercial tour companies desiring personal guides for battlefield tours. Those desiring guided horse tours, motorcycle tours, bicycle tours or guided segway tours must make those reservations through the websites of those companies. As a convenience you will find links to those below. ALBG bears no responsibility for actions of these companies or consequences that may arise in your dealing with these organizations. The links are provided as a convenient courtesy.

Links to companies that offer alternative tours utilizing our Licensed Guides:

The following links are provided as a convenience to our clients planning their Gettysburg visit. All of these are private companies or organizations, each with their own rules, rates and regulations. Just as you can hire an LBG to give you and your family a tour in your own vehicle, these companies hire our LBG's to conduct tours using their own unique forms of transportation.

Gettysburg Tour Company	In addition to tours on a double-decker bus (non-guided), the tour company hires LBG's to narrate many of their tours on air-conditioned and comfortable coaches.
Artillery Ridge Horseback Tours	Horseback trailrides and narrated two-hour tours, conducted by LBG's, are run from Artillery Ridge Campground on Taneytown Road. Visit this site if interested in that touring option. This company is owned by a long time Licensed Guide.
Motorcycle Tours	Several of our LBG's are experienced motorcyclists and have long offered tours to individuals or groups coming to Gettysburg by this form of transportation. They DO NOT provide motorcycles however. Should you desire to secure their services visit this link.
Bicycle Tours	GettysBike Tours offers regularly scheduled tours of the battlefield, again utilizing Licensed Battlefield Guides.
Segway Tours	One of the newest ways to experience Gettysburg is via the Segway personal transportation device and yes, the Licensed Battlefield Guides have individuals who give these tours under the sponsorship of SegTours, LLC.
Gettysburg Foundation	This is the non-profit organization that operates the National Park Service Visitor Center. In addition to selling tickets to the various attractions within the park they also schedule on-site guide services for both private car tours and bus tours.. Arrangements made via the Foundation will incur a $10 per tour surcharge which is placed on all such guide reservations. Bus and Van reservations have a higher surcharge.