Location: Foot of Colonial Parkway, Yorktown, VA 23690

Visited: July 4, 2009, 11:45am

My impressions: Not much in the way of photography for this one: I don’t like to take photographs (even flash-free) in museums unless I’ve researched their photography policies ahead of time. Since I didn’t realize there was a museum here, I hadn’t done any research.

The main purpose of stopping here was, I think, to get my wife’s Access Pass to the National Parks. And we were both pleasantly surprised at the ease with which that happened. After that, we stopped at the gift shop and I got my National Parks experience off on the right foot with the purchase of an Explorer’s Edition parks passport. So, we dutifully stamped my passport and then headed through the museum. It was interesting to see the campaign tent (pictured in the previous link) and some of the artifacts, including part of a neat display that tried to show the events that took place there, using a model of the battlefield, lights, and narration.

We didn’t take in any of the battlefield itself: being the 4th of July, the place was VERY busy. (In fact, we heard one of the NPS employees tell another couple who was asking about the audio driving tour that any other day, he would recommend it, but given the busyness that day and a couple of road closures, this was the one day of the year that he would not recommend it.)

But this was far from the end of our history for the day. Tomorrow, we’ll start down the Colonial Parkway towards Williamsburg and Jamestown.

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