What are the National Park Service ranger programs?
The park offers a wide variety of ranger-guided programs annually from April through October, with the core season for summer programs from mid-June through mid-August. The programs are given on a daily basis through the summer by a National Park Service ranger or park intern focusing on subjects including the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, the Gettysburg Address, soldier life and Civil War medicine, as well as other general topics related to the battle and Civil War. The park also offers extended battlefield walking tours and campfire programs during the summer months. A full description of programs is posted on our Summer Ranger Programs page with special programs and a schedule linked from our Things to Do page. What is the Living History program at Gettysburg? The park hosts volunteer organizations that portray Union and Confederate infantry, artillery and cavalry organizations as well as surgical units, Civil War-period ladies’ organizatio
