The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial: A Self Guided Audio Tour
- 0.8–1.3 hour
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial in Arlington, Virginia is one of the nation’s most intimate and architecturally meaningful memorials dedicated to the events of September 11, 2001. This self-guided audio tour offers an exploration of the Pentagon Memorial, which tells its story through design rather than relying on monuments or heroic imagery. The tour helps you learn how to “read” that design so you can engage with the space more deeply, while giving you the freedom to pause, observe, and reflect at your own pace. The tour starts in the parking area in front of the Pentagon building. It places the memorial within its broader physical and historical context, drawing attention to its relationship with the Pentagon building, nearby roadways, and the everyday activity that continues around it. This tour offers a contemporary perspective on those themes through a site shaped by collaboration with victims’ families and a commitment to individualised remembrance.
Inclusions
What's included
- Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
- App for Android and iOS
- Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
What's not
- Smartphone and headphones
- Transportation
- Food and drink
- Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Itinerary
Stand before one of the most recognisable buildings in the world, a vast five-sided fortress that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. Marvel at the sheer scale of this wartime construction, completed in just sixteen months in 1943, and reflect on its enduring presence as a symbol of American military power and national resilience.
Marvel at this soaring contemporary memorial, three stainless steel spires sweeping skyward above Arlington in a design inspired by the contrails of the Air Force Thunderbirds display team. Enjoy the sweeping views across the Potomac toward Washington DC and reflect on the service and sacrifice honoured by this striking and deeply considered landmark.
Walk through the most hallowed ground in America, where over 400,000 veterans, service members, and national figures rest beneath a landscape of white marble headstones stretching across 639 acres of rolling Virginia hillside. Stroll these deeply moving grounds and feel the weight of national memory carried by every carefully tended row of markers.
Explore this profoundly moving outdoor memorial, where 184 illuminated benches are arranged according to the ages and flight paths of those lost on September 11, 2001. Walk slowly through this quietly powerful landscape and learn to read its design — the Locator Stone, the Age Wall, the Zero Line — as a language of remembrance shaped by the families of those it honours.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- This tour starts at the parking area of the Pentagon. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- VoiceMap Audio Tours
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Washington DC
- Its from-price is 94% below the median of the 767 experiences we list in Washington DC.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Washington DC
Washington, DC is the US capital, a planned city on the Potomac, with a National Mall of monuments and museums and cherry trees in spring.
Washington was planned as a capital in the 1790s, with broad avenues radiating from the Capitol. The National Mall stretches from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, past the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool. Memorials to Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr stand around the Tidal Basin, where cherry trees bloom in late March or early April. The White House stands just north of the Mall.
Top-ranked sights in Washington DC: The White House, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lincoln Memorial.
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