Is that the national park that was renovated as a sort of “drive thru” so people didn’t have to get out of their comfy automobiles?
It is obscene.
Bloody Lane now looks like a lovely, manicured grassy ditch instead of the spare, disturbing dirt rut it used to be.
The fence is so shiny new it actually *hurts*.
[for a long time, sections of it were the original period fence...long gone, now]
A hideous parking lot is right up against it.
It looks like something somebody landscaped yesterday.
And yes, you can go through the whole park and never have to get your lazy arse out of the car.
Back in the day, I’ve walked about every inch of it but now everything’s fenced off and inaccessible except the observation tower which is usually full of drunk/stoned teens scaring each other by mock-shoving their buddies off the ledges.
They have effectively erased the entire aspect of the Confederacy and Lee even being there.
[whiny local liberals at work]
I went to take IR photos last year and sometimes go to the December candle event but that’s about it.
Gettysburg is -much- better.
[although I was bummed out when they tore down the “UFO-looking” observation tower]
I go every year, at least once because they have the wonderful Gettysburg Bike Week now.
This is somebody’s winter shot but you can see the wretched new parking lot.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6686845095_d8629c5a5d_o.jpg
Oh, and Burnside bridge is now totally blocked off.
If you feel like it, you can jump a barricade fence and slog through the woods and thickets to get to it.
On a high school field trip, we got to get off the bus and wander around it.
*Or* you can sit in your car in a nattily ‘scaped parking lot on the hill above it and sort of glimpse it in the distance.
Bastards.
