The Cold Harbor National Park Visitor Center is on Cold Harbor Road about nine miles from downtown Richmond. (see map below)

The Visitor Center is the ideal starting point for a visit to the Cold Harbor battlefield. It hosts a number of displays as well as a multimedia map that gives the history of both the 1862 and 1864 battles that were fought here.

The grounds around the Visitor Center have a number of markers:

Battle of Cold Harbor Information Display
Battle of Cold Harbor Conferate Main Line
The Killing Fields wayside marker
Read’s Battalion wayside marker
We must hold this line trailside marker
Walk in the footsteps of history trailside marker

The Visitor Center is the starting point for a short 1.5 mile Cold Harbor Auto Tour, a 1 mile Cold Harbor Walking Tour Primary Trail, and an extended two mile walking tour.

Location of the Cold Harbor Visitor Center

The Visitor Center is on Cold Harbor Road about nine miles from downtown Richmond and a little over two miles from exit 34 of Interstate 295.  (37°35’07.3″N 77°17’13.0″W)