This military park is very well designed and easy to navigate/drive through. We used the online app to guide us through the park. Be sure to watch the movie in the visitor center before touring. Read the descriptions in the brochure for more information and history. If you have any interest in the civil war history, you will enjoy this park. You will need to walk up/down hills and steps to get to the points of interest in order to fully experience and see the battlegrounds, etc.
I will surely be back. You need more than a couple hours to see everything this place has to offer. If you are remotely interested in our history you need to make this a destination. It was very informative and clean. Thank you for preserving a big piece of my history.
The drive through the battlefield monuments and cemetery is about 16 miles so allow at least a few hours for stops, including the Cairo Ironclad museum. All well worth the visit.
We had a great time touring the battlefield and surrounding battlefield areas. Its a beautiful park and very interesting. We did a lot of reading up and drove our own self-guided tour based on books we read leading up to the trip. It was great!
Lots of interesting history and a great spot to view the Mississippi River. Nice stop to stretch your legs on a long trip.
We had a wonderful trip around the battlefield with a CD that we had purchased in the gift shop. Really makes you stop and think about our history.
Saw the park on cold rainy day yet spent 3-4 hrs there. Well kept. If you are really interested and not just there to drive through, then spend the dollars and get the 2.5 hr. tour the park CD with book to follow from point to point. Excellent! Even in the rain it was great.
I have been visiting Vicksburg off and on my entire life and it was here as a 3-year old I had my first run in with fire ants...ouch! Anyway, this park is very well maintained and has so much history that you could spend days rather than hours here. I will go into too much detail, I will just give you some highlights and some don't miss attractions.First, you must visit the museum and watch the film if you no prior knowledge of what took place here. If you can afford it and it is available, you need to 'rent' a park ranger to take you around the 17-mile driving tour. They have an immense knowledge base to share and will make sure you don't miss the 'mine,' the gunboat, or the recently cleared field near the Texas lunette where you can see how close the trenches were to one another and walk in the steps of the soldiers stationed there (during the 1930s, the feds planted trees for conservation of the fields which obstructs most of the field of fire views). Also, don't miss the reconstructed earthworks at the museum which will give you a view of what these trenches looked like 150 years ago. *Important note...every year near the siege anniversary there is a reenactment near the site. Google Vicksburg reenactment for more information
Stopped by while on traveling to the Smoky Mountains and my family enjoyed it a lot. There's a lot on history and very beautiful scenery as well. The US Cairo was amazing, it's worth a stop if you are close by.
The guided tour and the statuary was incredible. It is a relaxing drive and space was made available so we could pull off and walk the grounds.