• Cannon and Cornfield at Dawn

    Antietam

    National Battlefield Maryland

Operating Hours & Seasons

Open All Year

The Visitor Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Park Grounds are open daylight hours.

Phone (301) 432-5124

Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day

Special Programs

Memorial Day Commemoration, Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend

Independence Day Commemoration (First Saturday in July)

Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), September 17

The Memorial Illumination (First Saturday in December)

Did You Know?

Bodies on the battlefield

Alexander Gardner's photographs of Antietam were the first ever images to show dead soldiers on the field of battle. A New York Times article about the photographs said it was if the "dead had been laid at our doorsteps." More...