DAY 1 | MAY 2ND | 57 miles
Ft Story – 7:00 am start, out the Ft Story gate to Atlantic Ave, right turn on Shore Drive follow until it turns left into Ocean View ave. Norfolk. HM20, 10:46 am. Load runners and drive over Hampton Bridge Tunnel.
Hampton – 11:17 am, unload runners on Mallory St/Lancer St toward HM21. continue on Mallory St, left on E Mercury Blvd. follow to right turn on N Armistead St, left on commander Shepard Blvd, right on ramp to Magruder blvd/George Washington Hwy/Rt17. End HM40, 2:28pm before bridge. Newport News, York County.
Yorktown – 2:28 pm, load up runners and drive across Coleman Bridge pay toll. 2:48 pm Unload runners at base of bridge and continue toward HM41. Need to consider and navigate tolls with caravan.
Gloucester – Continue George Washington Hwy/Rt17 to end day 1, near West Point area. End HM57, 5:35pm. Evening dinner to follow.
DAY 2 | MAY 3RD | 65 miles
Gloucester – 6:30am start, Begin one mile before HM58, General Puller Hwy. Continue on George Washington Hwy/Rt17 to Port Royal/AP Hill. Approx 3:40pm, Right on Rt 301 to Dahlgren, End HM122, King George Lodge, 6:00pm. Caroline, Essex, Middlesex, King George, Dahlgren. Evening dinner to follow.
DAY 3 | MAY 4TH | 69 miles
Dahlgren – 6:00am start. Begin, at corner of Rt 301 (Valero) and Dahlgren Rd headed south toward HM123 Right on Rt 3/Kings Hwy. King George, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, Stafford.
Rt on Jefferson Davis Hwy./Rt 1, after HM151 10:54am. After HM167. Team veers into Quantico Marine Base toward HM168 inside gate, 1:50pm. Turn left on Purvis Rd into Quantico Marine Base. Continue on Purvis to left on Fuller. Turn right Rt 1. to HM175, 3:00pm. Left on Rt 234/Dumfries Rd, stay on Dumfries Rd, after HM190, 530pm right on Prince William Pkwy/Liberia right on Wellington left on Yates Ford Rd. Ending last marker at Buckhall Fire Station HM195, 6:23pm Evening dinner to follow.
DAY 4 | MAY 5TH | 34 miles
Manassas – 7:30am start. Begin toward HM196, 7:30am. Starting at Buckhall FD, (Yates Ford Rd) heading west on Yates Ford Rd Right on Prince William County Parkway, Right on Liberia, Right on Route 28 (Centreville Road), Right on New Braddock Road, 9:00am, Cont. straight on Braddock Road Left on Ravensworth Road, 11:10am. Continue then right on John Mar Dr, follow to right on Columbia Pike 11:40am, to Ft Myer, left on S Courthouse Rd. Rt on 2nd St. End HM228, 1pm. proceed into Ft Myer to Old Ft Myer chapel, honor our last marker at HM229, then through gate into Arlington National Cemetery and walk to Sec 60, Final ceremony 1:30pm. Fairfax County, Burke, Annandale, Baileys Crossroads, Arlington.