Gettysburg with Kids
I would like to go to Gettysburg for a three day trip this Spring (I am a bit of a history buff), but my wife is concerned that there is not much for little kids to do in that area. We have five year...
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D & M wrote:
Trust me, there is nothing that a toddler and two 5 year olds would find interesting for more then a few minutes.
X2 We lived a half hour away from Gettysburg for 8 years. The new Visitor Center/museum is wonderful but it is not for kids. The refurbished Cyclorama is interesting but to a 5 year old it will look like a pale shadow of today's computer animation. Trust me, I've taken grandchildren there and know their reactions to it. The battlefield, itself, is not very exciting unless you are a Civil War buff; it's hard to get a child to visualize a battle by looking at a field of grass.
