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The Encampment Store

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Take home a piece of the Valley Forge experience with you or just stop in to shop through our wide variety of books on the American Revolution, unique gifts, reproductions, custom one-of-a kind products and much more. Snacks and beverages are also available in the cafe. Shop online!

The Encampment Store offers tour guide services throughout the year. Trolley Tours operate on weekends in the spring and fall, daily in the summer, and select days during the holiday season. Special children's activities and family programs are offered on select days throughout the year. Call the store to reserve your trolley tickets in advance.

Bicycle rentals are available seasonally in the main Visitor Center parking lot.
Call 610-783-4593 for bike rental information.

The Encampment Store is located on the main floor of the Visitor Center and open daily from 9 AM to 5 PM and closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day.

Contact The Encampment Store
Phone: 610-783-1074
Fax: 610-783-4542
Email: info@encampmentstore.org

 
Old fashioned trolley parked out front of the Valley Forge Visitor Center

Tours of the Park
The Encampment Store's tours of the Park are an excellent way to experience the beauty and history of Valley Forge National Historical Park. Whether you take a trolley tour, explore by bicycle, travel in your own vehicle or discover the Park with your bus group, the Encampment Store offers the best options to learn the history of the Park and lead you over some of our nation's most hallowed ground. Click on the links below or call (610) 783-1074 for more information on our programs!

Trolley Tours
Hop aboard an old-fashioned trolley and enjoy a 90-minute guided tour of Valley Forge. Tours depart from the front of the Visitor Center and make extended stops at the Muhlenberg Brigade Huts and Washington's Headquarters.

Tour Prices:
$16.50: Adults
$13.50: Students, seniors (62 & over) and active military
$8.50: Children (11 & under)

Schedule:
Tours available daily during the summer and weekends in the spring and fall. Special holiday tours available Thanksgiving weekend and between the Christmas and New Years holidays.
Call 610-783-1074 to reserve tickets and for additional dates and information.

Step-on Tours
Planning a group bus trip to Valley Forge? The Encampment Store will help you and your guests experience and explore the history, personal stories and landscape of one of our nation's most significant Revolutionary War period sites.

Our official National Park Service-trained tour guides will board your bus and lead your group through an enlightening and entertaining tour of the Park. Tours are approximately two hours and include stops at the soldier huts at the Muhlenberg Brigade Huts and the original house that was once General Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge.

Reservations for "The Official Valley Forge National Historical Park Tour" are required. For more information about the tours, available times and fees or to make a reservation, please contact The Encampment Store at 610-783-1074 or vftours@aol.com

Bicycle Tours
Tour Valley Forge on two wheels! The park contains 21 miles of authorized biking trails, including the paved multi-use Joseph Plumb Martin Trail (about 5 miles). Valley Forge also connects to longer regional trails, such as the Schuylkill River Trail, that provide nearly 100 miles of riding. Valley Forge Bike Rental is located in the lower parking lot of the Visitor Center and is open daily during the summer season and weekends during the spring and fall.
Contact Valley Forge Bike Rental at 610-783-4593 and visit them on Facebook.

Guided tours via bicycle are offered through The Encampment Store. Participants can use their own equipment or rent a bike at a special discount.
Contact Graham at The Encampment Store for more information, 610-783-1062.

Audio Tours
The Valley Forge National Historical Park Audio Tour, the Official Audio Tour of Valley Forge National Historical Park is a 60 minute audio/CD tour of the Park which tells you the story of Valley Forge and its significance to the Revolutionary War.

The CD package features a nine-year timeline of the Revolutionary Period which helps the reader defines the events and victories of the Revolution from both the British and the American sides.

Valley Forge National Historical Park Audio Tour, $14.95, is available on-line or in The Encampment Store at the Park.

Did You Know?

The huts used by Washington's guard, framed by falling snow.

Valley Forge was the third of the eight American winter encampments during the Revolutionary War. It is the best known of the eight, however, because it is remembered as the birthplace of the Continental Army.