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Cemetery Walking Tour

Walking
21 Stops
2h
5km
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Tour Overview

Visitors should allow approximately 2 hours to follow this general cemetery tour. It guides visitors to various gravesites and monuments that tell the rich history of Arlington National Cemetery. The walk does have challenging grades, so if walking long distances is a concern, Arlington Cemetery Tours offers transportation around the cemetery. Many of the sites on this tour are easily accessible from tram stops.

Arlington National Cemetery conducts up to 27 funeral services each weekday. The grounds honor those who have served our nation and provide a sense of beauty and peace for our guests. Rolling green hills are dotted with trees that are hundreds of years in age, complementing the gardens found throughout the cemetery's 639 acres. This impressive landscape serves as a tribute to the service and sacrifice of every individual laid to rest within these hallowed grounds.

Stops

  1. Stop 1: Welcome / Visitor Center

  2. Stop 2: John F. Kennedy

  3. Stop 3: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

  4. Stop 4: Tour End

  5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  6. Thurgood Marshall

  7. Pierre Charles L'Enfant

  8. Civil War Unknowns

  9. James Tanner Amphitheater

  10. General Phillip Kearney

  11. Canadian Cross of Sacrifice

  12. Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia

  13. Memorial Amphitheater

  14. USS Maine Mast

  15. Major Audie Murphy

  16. Spanish American War Memorial

  17. Nurses Memorial

  18. Joe Louis Barrow

  19. Chaplains Hill

  20. Sir John Dill

  21. Chief Plenty Coups Artifacts

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