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Alerts and conditions

Information Phone Line

The park phone line is experiencing technical difficulties. To contact the park, please call 540-693-3241 or email frsp_info@nps.gov.

Information Parking lot striping beginning November 9, 2026

Parking lots throughout the park will be re-painted during the week of November 9. Workers will close parking lots on a rotation as they complete the striping. Each location is estimated to take no more than a few hours.

Park Closure Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center Closed, Store and Grounds Open

Starting November 20, 2025 the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center will be closed while updates are made to building systems. Front Desk operations including visitor orientation will move to the adjacent Fredericksburg Battlefield Bookstore. The Chancellorsville Visitor Center remains open to visitors 9am - 5pm all week.

Overview

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, this is America's battleground, where the Civil War roared to its bloody climax. No place more vividly reflects the War's tragic cost in all its forms. A town bombarded and looted. Farms large and small ruined. Refugees by the thousands forced into the countryside. More than 85,000 men wounded; 15,000 killed--most in graves unknown.

From the National Park Service

History

The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.

What to see and do

Activities

  • Biking
  • Road Biking
  • Guided Tours
  • Self-Guided Tours - Walking
  • Self-Guided Tours - Auto
  • Hiking
  • Front-Country Hiking
  • Living History
  • Reenactments
  • Historic Weapons Demonstration
  • Junior Ranger Program
  • Park Film
  • Museum Exhibits
  • Shopping
  • Bookstore and Park Store

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Plan your visit

Hours

Park Grounds: Park grounds are open from sunrise to sunset daily, with the exception of extreme weather incidents. Building hours vary by building and season.

Getting there

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park manages 4 battlefields and multiple historical sites across multiple counties. The park is located approximately 50 miles south of Washington DC. Different battlefields and historical sites are accessible via I-95 and VA Route 3. For directions and physical addresses for each of our sites, please visit the Directions & Transportation section of our website.

Visitor centers

Weather

The regional climate is characterized by mild winters and warm, humid summers. The mean annual temperatures is 56 degrees Fahrenheit. The average summer temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Daytime highs during the summer can reach the 90s, and nighttime lows are in the lower 60s. Daytime highs in the winter are typically in the upper 40s, and nighttime lows in the middle 20s. Precipitation is well distributed throughout the year, with the minimum amount in August and the maximum in February.

Phone: 5406933200

Whose lands these are

These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.

Photos

Monument in national cemetery illuminated by candles
Fredericksburg National Cemetery · NPS Photo
A gravel path bordered by a stone wall leading to a small, two story white house.
Innis House along the Sunken Road · NPS Photo
Trees with fall colors in front of large brick manor house
Chatham in the Fall · Buddy Secor
A cannon in a misty clearing surrounded by sparse trees.
Saunders Field in Spring · Buddy Secor
A bowl-shaped field surrounded by autumn trees.
Bloody Angle in the Fall · NPS Photo
A living historian dressed as a US Civil War soldier speaks with a family outdoors.
Living History on Marye's Heights · NPS Photo

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