Antietam National Battlefield

1.25-mile loop from Auto Tour Stop 4 crossing the Cornfield, site of the ferocious early-morning fighting of September 17, 1862; interpretive markers explain one of the battle's bloodiest phases.

1.6-mile trail through the battlefield's quiet northern farm country, linking the Bloody Lane and Sherrick Farm trails past the Roulette, Parks and Newcomer farmsteads that stood during the 1862 battle.

1.6-mile loop from the visitor center passing the Mumma and Roulette Farms to the Sunken Road—the "Bloody Lane"—where Union assaults finally broke the Confederate center during midday fighting.

1.3-mile trail meandering through farm fields and woodlots on hilly terrain down to Burnside Bridge, passing the 194-acre farm owned by Joseph Sherrick Jr. during the Battle of Antietam.

1-mile loop crossing the historic Burnside Bridge over Antietam Creek, tracing the Union and Confederate movements around the stone bridge during the battle's late-afternoon fighting.

0.9-mile, mostly shaded loop from Auto Tour Stop 5 through the West Woods, where mid-morning fighting on September 17, 1862 produced some of the day's heaviest casualties.