Bike the Yorktown Battlefield

Yorktown, Virginia

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Distance

10.8 miles

Elevation Gain

259 ft

Route Type

Loop

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Tour the turning point of the Revolutionary War within the Colonial National Historic Park.

Great for cyclists, this tour is full of beautiful scenery with rolling hills, redoubts, and history.

A six-stop tour of the Yorktown Battlefield has been designed to take visitors to the most important spots on the battlefield. Signs direct you from one stop to the next. Signs with red arrows are for the Yorktown Battlefield Tour. Signs with yellow arrows are for the Allied Encampment Tour, a tour that begins at the last stop of the Battlefield Tour. (The Allied Encampment Tour takes you around to locations used by the American and French troops for sleeping, drilling, and storing artillery and other equipment.)

A popular route is riding from George Washington's Headquarter to the French encampment and back. The trail is shared with the auto tour road so you have to share it with cars, but the speed limit is low.

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Bike the Yorktown Battlefield Reviews

Allison Foyles

Bike the Yorktown Battlefield

03/27/23

This is fabulous biking grounds, especially if you’re a history fan and nature lover. The ample amount of areas to explore, and things to see, you can spend hours here. You pass beautiful trees and backwater marshes, as you explore the battlefields. There’s a lot of historical reading points and things to see for those who are interested. Highly recommend for all ages.

5.0

Stephen Catalano

Bike the Yorktown Battlefield

08/14/20

Came here with the whole family. It gets hot during the day (if you’re not familiar with VA weather) so come prepared with plenty of water.

3.0

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