VALLEY FORGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

To organize the visit, we recommend a stop at the Visitor Center to take a map, inquire about special events or events of the day with Rangers and watch a documentary that tells the key moments of the Valley Forge camp. The small annex museum is well done and helps to understand the difficulties faced by people (including diseases) and even to weigh one of the guns that soldiers used.

The most important sites in the park are presented along a circuit that forms a ten-mile loop. The visit can be made by car, bicycle for athletes or by bus (pay guided tour). In the summer (June to late September), a free shuttle system is set up and stops at every point of interest. The shuttle runs continuously and passes every stop every 20 minutes.

Washington's Headquarters is certainly the highlight of the visit. Washington headquarters is located in the only stone house in the camp. However, space is not great and it must be imagined that 25 people lived here (counselors, his wife…). A little before the house on the trail, the 1913 Valley Forge Station was renovated and hosted an interesting exhibition on General Washington. A good introduction to understand the operation of the site (the headquarters and houses of elite soldiers) that can be seen as the Pentagon of the time. A little further, Washington Chapel is the perfect place to drink a refreshment or picnic.