Theodore Roosevelt Presidential LibraryPublic Lands Directory

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Overview

The center of Confederate manufacturing fueled a modern war, one of the South’s largest hospitals gave care to the sick and wounded, and armies battled on open fields and in miles of defensive earthworks. From 1861 to 1865, Richmond’s fate would determine America’s future.

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

  • Guided Tours
  • Self-Guided Tours - Walking
  • Hiking
  • Living History
  • Historic Weapons Demonstration
  • Junior Ranger Program
  • Park Film
  • Museum Exhibits
  • Shopping
  • Bookstore and Park Store
  • Gift Shop and Souvenirs

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Plan your visit

Hours

Trails and Battlefield Park Grounds: Trails and Battlefield Park Grounds: park outdoor spaces, trails, and battlefields are open and accessible daily, sunrise to sunset.

Getting there

Richmond National Battlefield Park has two visitor centers and ten additional self-guided, outdoor battlefield units. Please navigate to the "visitor centers" section to select an individual visitor center and find directions to its location.

Visitor centers

Weather

Summer, hot and humid. Fall and Spring, mild. Winter, cold with occasional ice and snow.

Phone: 804-226-1981

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

Five weathered, bronze Civil War cannons, lined up side-by-side in a grassy field.
Malvern Hill Battlefield · NPS Photo
A rectangular house of wood and brick, with a cedar shingle roof and brick chimney, near woods.
Garthright House · NPS Photo
A two story gray brick building and a wooden sign reading "Chimborazo Visitor Center"
Chimborazo Visitor Center · NPS
A small brick visitor center building beside a flagpole.
Cold Harbor Battlefield Visitor Center · NPS Photo
A uniformed park ranger gestures to an upright sign in front of a crowd of visitors.
Park Ranger Guided Tour at Richmond National Battlefield Park · NPS Photo
A large, black Civil War cannon overlooking a river from a high bluff.
Drewry's Bluff Battlefield · NPS Photo

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