The National Parks Passport Book creates this insatiable urge to see what sort of NPS sites are nearby whenever and wherever we travel, so that we can get that stamp! For Spring break we traveled to visit family in Atlanta and Nashville. We weren’t able to go out of the way at all in Atlanta to get any stamps. In Nashville, we did find ourselves with an extra day, so we took a short drive to Murfreesboro to visit an NPS site that we would have probably not known about if it were not for the Passport Book.
The visitor center has a theater and a few rooms with displays that including uniforms, artifacts, and models that recreated the environment that would have been experienced by soldiers at the time.
There was a small band of people in period attire that were marching and firing muskets behind the visitor center. We don’t know if that was a regular demonstration or if we just happened to have good timing to see that while we were there.
There was a lot to take in at this National Battlefield site. The park has three sections (from what we could tell). If we had done the hiking, we could have easily spent the entire day. But with little ones, it was the driving tour that worked best for us. We drove around the area near the visitor center, the cemetery, and the battlefield (which was a couple of miles away).
