Baltimore

Day 1 – Arrive in Philadelphia

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Lights of Liberty program at Independence Park

Day 2 – Focus: Initiators of Independence

  • Independence Park area – Visitor’s Center, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell
  • The Constitution Center
  • Franklin Court
  • Betsy Ross house
  • Proceed to Baltimore
  • Fort McHenry
  • Baltimore Inner Harbor
  • Proceed to Washington, D.C.
  • Orientation to National Mall
  • Kennedy Center
  • Iwo Jima Memorial

Day 3 – Focus: Branches of Government and Balance of Powers

  • United States Capitol Building
  • Library of Congress
  • Supreme Court
  • White House area – Lafayette Park and Ellipse
  • Washington Monument
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
  • FDR and Jefferson Memorials

Day 4 – Focus: “Freedom is not Free”

  • Arlington National Cemetery
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Smithsonian Museums of Air & Space, American History, and Natural History
  • Lincoln Memorial
  • WWII, Vietnam, Korea War Memorials

Day 5 – Focus: Role of the Citizen

  • Mount Vernon
  • Lunch in Old Town Alexandria
  • Ford’s Theater and Peterson House
  • Souvenir Shopping
  • National Archives