Beware The Blue Meters
Cats: Business, Day Trips, Gettysburg, Parking|That was the fine. Fifty dollars. For parking in front of a blue parking meter without a handicap sticker. You see, those blue meters are for handicapped persons. And if you’re from out of town and not used to seeing blue meters, just know that they are for the handicapped. If you are not handicapped and you park in front of a blue parking meter then you will be ticketed and you’ll spend some money making Gettysburg city administrators happy that you’ve paid for a family meal.
And the $1 an hour fee might seem a bit steep for the parking meters downtown, but they do a lot to regulate parking on the streets. With Gettysburg getting as many visitors as we get, especially during this time of year, if we offered free street parking then everyone would have a tough time maneuvering through the area as traffic would be piled up with automobiles on every street competing for limited parking space. The $1 an hour parking fee at the meters helps keep down congestion. And the bright side is, when you park in Gettysburg you can walk to just about anywhere and enjoy your stay in one of the most historic towns in America.
