Verdun tours

We did a tour from Paris to the Somme with Blue Fox tours. Guide was English speaking and the tour was excellent. Not sure if they do a Verdun tour, but there are companies that do offer it.

A really in depth tour of the Verdun battlefield would take weeks. It's incredibly large. I've spent a week, or more, every year for the past three years walking, and driving, around it. With just one day you don't need a guide. Just go to the Mémorial de Verdun, which is the modern museum on the lines, and tour that. Then drive over to Ft Douaumont, then the Vauquois Memorial, and then the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery. That will be a full day, and you'll see some of the best places.

https://memorial-verdun.fr/fr
https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/about-meuse-argonne-american-cemetery/

I have been looking for Verdun and American WWI tours from Reims. I will probably end up booking with this company:

https://royaljourneyfrance.com/historical-tours/

I went to Verdun for the first time in 2023, got to the Tourist office too but became so involved reading through the materials there that asking about any sort of tours to the pertinent sites slipped my mind. The trip next summer will also include going back to Verdun. I will inquire about the tours offered, if any.

Failing that I intend on hiring a taxi to drive out there to the particular sites to be seen. That can be arranged by the Tourist Office.

As KGC commented Verdun was an immense campaign that does not lend itself to a one day drive by. Read up on the battle/siege for Fort Douamont near Verdun and spend some time there. It’s emblematic of the titanic struggle that was Verdun. You’ll also find military cemeteries all over the area reflecting the ebb and flow of the bloodbath.

I’ve been around Verdun and the American Campaign in the Meuse Argonne over a number of years. Nowhere close to a complete view of what happened.

My purpose in going to Verdun is to see a few certain sites, maybe not more than 4 or 5, which includes also one or two cemeteries. Tracking down salient Verdun sites is not top priority on WW1.

The centre-ville and other walkable areas I have explored enough.

The source I use on Verdun is that by the British historian A. Horne.

pka999,
We haven't tried to see every bit of the Battle sites. On my three visits to Verdun, and my husband's 5 (or 6) we drive through and stop to look at some of the battlefields now covered over by nature, the Memorial Museum (fairly new and excellent) and the Douaumont Ossuary and Cemetery. One other interesting stop is the monument to the carrier pigeons which were such an important part of the communications system in that war. In one day, a several hours drive through there would cover a lot, unless you spend about 4 hours each at the museum and Ossuary alone. The museum is relatively new and is full of artifacts and information and, IMO, very well presented. I hope you find a driver or at least rent a car for the day. To just stop and see the ripples on the ground, now covered by nature, in the silence of the forest, you can really feel the spirits of those who fought there.