Two-Hour Walking Tour

Nearly 430,000 veterans and their eligible dependents are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Service members from every one of America’s major wars, from the Revolutionary War to today's conflicts, are laid to rest and honored here. These hallowed grounds reflect the history of the United States.

This tour will guide you to several of the cemetery's most iconic sites — President John F. Kennedy's Gravesite, Memorial Amphitheater and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — as well as the gravesites of military and civilian leaders whose lives exemplified American ideals. The tour also features some of the cemetery's many monuments and memorials, including a living tree and the mast of a 19th-century ship.

Important Information

• Please allow at least two hours for this tour.
• The walk from the Welcome Center to the first few sites is mostly uphill.
• Approximate walking times:
  • Welcome Center to JFK Gravesite: 15-20 minutes
  • JFK Gravesite to Tomb: 15-20 minutes
  • Welcome Center directly to Tomb: 20-30 minutes
• As an alternative to walking, consider purchasing tickets for Arlington National Cemetery's live-narrated, hop on/hop off interpretive tram tour. Tram tours depart every 20 minutes, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily; tickets can be purchased in the Welcome Center. Click here for more information.
• At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Changing of the Guard occurs once every hour (at the top of the hour) from Oct. 1 through March 31, and once every half-hour from April 1 through Sept. 30.