vicksburg national military park

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.

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.

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.

Loved the history and the beautifully kept memorial to our American Soldiers, both North and South. Great history lesson for my young grandsons without them realizing it!

Make sure you watch the video first. The self-drive was good. We were told to watch for the phone numbers at each stop, call the number and you will get information on each of the 15 history points. We found no such number. A little disappointed in this

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.

Lots of interesting history and a great spot to view the Mississippi River. Nice stop to stretch your legs on a long trip.

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.

This is a very well maintained and well laid out park with a roadway the marks the battle lines that were in place during the siege of Vicksburg.The best place to start is at the center and watch the video and view the displays in the center...and then take a trip around the park.you can, for a price, have an "expert" drive your car around to give you the tour. however, if you do you'll have little chance to get out and wander around, read the monuments, the site markers, etc. .... as an example, Stockade Redan (stop 5), just to stand and imagine the attack, and then at stop 10 to see what was being attacked....all hard to imagine the futility, the casualties.at the mid point you can visit the Cairo museum and see the real ship in its courtyard.plan on 4/5 hours if you really want to learn a lot....AND...talk with the rangers at the Center. they have all sorts of information, know the history very well..excellent group!

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.

If you visit Vicksburg you have got to devote a few hours touring this phenomenal attraction. The printed material given to you for all of the major locations, is excellent. The infra structure of the statues, signs, roads, etc. is first class. We have also previously toured Shiloh and it is an amazing place however; there are so many more monuments and statues at Vicksburg. This is also very humbling when you realize that the loss of so many lives were sacrificed for our nation's best interests.

My friend Jerry and I were heading to New Orleans by way of Vicksburg and decided to take in the Battlefield of Vicksburg. I don't think we realized how moving and significant this site would be so we actually stayed overnight nearby so we could have an additional several hours the next day to return. The admission cost was 8.00 and allowed three days of time to return and soak in all of the monuments and observation areas. I originally thought that we would have just driven by the numerous memorials and statues while reading about them from the provided map and literature, but the deeper we got into the 16mile long route, the more we stopped and tried to place ourselves in the various locals on the days described in this magnificent site. We walked through the "temples" of memory raised to both USA and CSA soldiers and marveled at the sacrifices and efforts that both sides had made. We were speechless in places at the audacity of some of the leaders and the murderous results faced by both sides as they tried to advance and were repelled on a daily basis. Taking numerous pictures did not do justice to the strong emotions we felt as we listened to the stories and messages the site spoke to us about. We also visited the USS Cairo ironclad museum in the park and found their collection of artifacts recovered from the nautical archeological excavation to be amazing. A must see for those you value the War between the states.

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

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.

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!