Plan Your Visit

Welcome to Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

 

The park's tour road accommodates cars, bikes, and pedestrians. Cars and cyclists travel one way using the right side of the road. Pedestrians may travel both directions using the left side of the road.

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Did you know that Guilford Courthouse is one of multiple National Parks preserving the history of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution? The Battle of Guilford Courthouse featured Major General Nathanael Greene’s Continental and militia forces, and General Charles Cornwallis’ British Army, Hessians, and Jaegers. Cornwallis won a tactical victory, however it set the British Army on the path to ultimate surrender at the Siege of Yorktown.

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is an urban park, located in the heart of Greensboro, six-miles north from downtown. Please start your visit at the Battlefield Visitors Center to get a map and start your interpretive experience! The Park offers: the Visitor Center, historic structures, monuments, and trails that encompass 250 acres of the original battlefield. You can find a detailed list of activities on our Things To Do Webpage with time duration and activity.

• The Visitor Center
• The Hoskins Farmstead, the location of Lord Cornwallis' deployment of the Crown Forces, and the homestead of the Hoskins Family during the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Explore the park with a Cell Phone Tour by walking or driving.
• Twenty-nine monuments commemorating the battle, soldiers, local heroes and heroines, and park founders
• Walk down Historic New Garden Road or the adjacent foot trails
• Drive on the Tour Road (one way, right side)
• Bike on the Tour Road (one way, right side)