The Yorktown Visitor Center is the orientation point for your visit to Yorktown and Yorktown Battlefield. At the visitor center information desk, you can obtain a park brochure with maps and information, an orientation to the park, and an opportunity to schedule your visit around the various interpretive programs going on throughout the day. The entrance fee to Yorktown Battlefield is collected at the visitor center.
Admission is good for seven days from the date of purchase.
National Park, Golden Eagle, Golden Age, and Golden Access passports to the National Parks are accepted. Commercial tour companies should contact the park in advance for fee information. From there, you can tour the museum exhibits which focus on the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, the Battle of the Capes, and the campaign table used by British General Cornwallis during the siege. The park also administers portions of General Washington's Campaign Tents . The museum sales shop has an excellent selection of books and reproduction items which focus on America's Colonial Period and the American Revolution.