Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. It protects important Civil War sites, especially the Battle of Cedar Creek and the Belle Grove Plantation.
The park was authorized on December 19, 2002, and is the 388th unit of the National Park Service. It covers about 3,712 acres across Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren counties, near Middletown, Virginia. Much of the land is privately owned, so most of the battlefield isn’t open to the public. Visitors can still see key areas by driving public roads, with ranger-guided and self-guided tours available.
About 1,500 acres of land and many buildings are preserved and run by partner sites that predate the park. Since 2010, the park has offered interpretive programs at partner locations such as the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation headquarters, Belle Grove Plantation, and Hupp’s Hill Civil War Park.
The American Battlefield Trust and partners have preserved 727 acres of the battlefield through November 2021, some of which the National Park Service has acquired and added to the park. In 2012, the park acquired land that includes a monument to the 8th Vermont Infantry, with access through occasional programs.
In March 2013, the park opened a Visitor Contact Station in Middletown with exhibits and visitor information. The Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove site is a National Historic Landmark, and the 900-acre Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Belle Grove plantation house, built in 1797, is open to the public and is operated independently by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The park’s listed area lies in Frederick and Warren counties.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 03:43 (CET).