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, make certain to make
arrangements well in advance. There are several ways you can do this:
Contact the
ALBG directly:
Please call 717-337-1709 for reservations. This phone
is answered when someone is working in the guide office. We have no
full time 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. 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.
Note: At the present time, the ALBG is referring all bus reservations to a third party contractor who may charge an additional booking fee for their services.
Contact the 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. Please note that a $5 per tour surcharge is
placed on all such guide reservations. Also please note that one must
specifically request a personal guide in your own car! Most of
their package plans sell tickets for the guided bus tours. If you
want your own personal guide for two hours in your family vehicle -
make sure your reservation's agent knows this. Contact information can
be found at the Gettysburg
Foundation website.
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, 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. |