Little Round Top Rehabilitation Project 12/21/22 Walkthrough

Join Jason Martz, Communications Specialist for Gettysburg NMP & Eisenhower NHS, on a walk around Little Round Top to learn more about the ongoing rehabilitation project. This live stream program provides specific details about the 18-month project.

[takyram]

Thank you for the walk through. I’ll look forward to visiting once the project is complete. I’m pleased that you are using the “social trails” and making them safer.

[jeanhutchinson]

Thank you for giving the public an update. Please don't let the complainers get you down.. I'm coming down to enjoy LRT as soon as it reopens. In the meantime, there are plenty of other interesting areas to explore on the battlefield!

[McNairthNC]

Thanks so much for the update! Very informative and I’m looking forward to it. I can tell a lot of thought and planning went into it, hope you figure out the pacing material “yet to be determined “ 😂
And don’t mind the complainers and whiners, great job!

[zachv]

To yall that are complaining the project is literally stabilizing the round tops.

[ronaldschmuck]

Awesome job when will the project plan to be done? Definitely want to visit soon as I can. Keep up the good work God bless.

[decimated]

24:18 He says there is going to be a new pull-off for buses on either side of Sykes avenue. That's great guys but really we don't want to have buses tipping over like they do in those third world countries where you get to see that footage of a double decker bus on a dirt pothole road sliding off a muddy slope into the jungle please guys

[bryanfields]

I'm a little apprehensive about shrinking the width of Sykes Avenue, there will be ripple effects to traffic and the workaround solutions that people will come up with. I thin k congestion might be even worse than before (although the additional bus parking will be a huge improvement in alleviating that congestion).

[dadsongs]

I can't thank enough those who are responsible for this work.

[TheBigman]

Thanks...
But please..PLEASE....Record Horizontal
Instead of Vertical

[marklusich]

When do you folks think this will reopen? Thanks for your great efforts.

[chrismiller]

The very limited parking at the summit will create many problems. With no parking on the road (Sykes Avenue) very few people will be able to park and see the summit. Maybe that’s their intent. People will have to circle down Wheatfield road, left on Crawford avenue and left at Devil’s Den to try to find a parking place. The circle of cars on that route will create more congestion and pollution. People will have to park elsewhere and walk up to LRT.

[davesw]

Parking for seven buses? No additional parking for cars that's a disappointment

[Fuzzamajumula]

I don't think it was intentional, but that shadow you were casting at the beginning of this video was very impressive. I'm sorry I missed the live. Nevertheless, I appreciate your making the video!

[jamesweikel]

It's a real shame that this didn't happen in 2021 insesd of 2022 especially 18 months. Since 2023 marks the 160th anniversary with thousands of visitors that would have like to see a key moment of day 2

[sharonautry]

People won't wait for a long line of people on a new trail...they'll just make a new social trail...one does it and more will follow...always been that way..sad

[rickfowler]

You turned it into a parking lot, what’s the point of being able to get there if it’s just concrete you’re looking at?

[Frank-rxwm]

So little round top is closed off for the season now????! I was going to Rountop on the 24th so now what? Well I'm not coming now with this eyesore going on!

[b.o.]

Why was the Devil’s Den area done in black top? Had to stop watching. The pictures of what’s happened to the earth in places makes me very sad. I’m speaking of the construction, not the erosion. And listening to how you’re basically a surgeon that is going to kill the patient to save the patient. While spent mini balls, and buckles may seem ho hum to the narrator, this means you’re actively disturbing the battlefield. Those battlefields that have used the rainbow turf will soon find out about PFAS and how that is going to poison the water table. Micro plastics… just unbelievable. I am glad I’ve been there, before all this was/is done. It troubles me to no end about how government bureaucrats are deciding how best to change the battlefield because they think this will solve the traffic flow. Once it’s all done it’s done. Good luck on weekends. I wish you the best of luck but seeing all that bare ground in the video, you know flattened bare ground that doesn’t resemble what was there is just sad. Again glad I was there in the 90s. Just feel bad for my kids and everyone else coming after you’ve drastically changed the topography and look of Little Round Top.

[paulhoffman]

You are destroying more of the battlefield than the 900, 000 visitors. It was bad enough that they took out all the bolder and rocks to make the trolleys rails and roads. We are losing how hard it was to fight in this area. I get taking out all the trees and brush that was not there during the battle.

[JOE]

How typical and disappointing that our National Park Service is are going to change Little Round Top into a sterile, Disneyesque charade.