Flight 93 National Memorial
— — the field that answered.
Not only on a wall.
“A field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, two hours east of Pittsburgh, where the forty passengers and crew of United Flight 93 chose to act on the morning of 11 September 2001. The National Park Service now keeps the ground as a memorial. A long marble Wall of Names follows the flight path to the boulder at the impact site. At the entrance a 93-foot tower holds forty wind chimes that ring whenever the wind comes down the valley.
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Flight 93 National Memorial occupies about 2,200 acres of reclaimed strip-mine land in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville. The site marks where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed at 10:03 a.m. on 11 September 2001, after the forty passengers and crew confronted the four hijackers who had taken the cockpit. The National Park Service administers the memorial, which was dedicated on the tenth anniversary in 2011. The closest major city is Pittsburgh, about eighty miles to the west along U.S. Route 30.
The memorial is built along the flight path the aircraft followed in its final seconds. A long white marble Wall of Names lists the forty passengers and crew, and a sandstone boulder set in the field marks the impact point, reachable only by Park Service staff and family members. Visitors stop at an overlook above the field. The site sits high enough that wind moves through the meadow on most days, and the design holds the silence the way the field itself does.
The Visitor Center sits on a ridge above the field of honor, open daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day, with free admission. The Wall of Names is a quarter-mile walk from the parking area along a paved path. The Tower of Voices, near the park entrance off U.S. Route 30, stands 93 feet tall and holds forty aluminum wind chimes tuned to a single chord; it was dedicated in September 2018. The drive from Pittsburgh takes about an hour and forty minutes.