If you’re visiting New York City, a trip to Liberty Island, including a tour inside the statue officially titled “Liberty Enlightening the World” is now far more memorable with the re-opening of access to the crown of Lady Liberty in July 2009.

Visiting the Statue of Liberty should involve thorough planning, so take an hour or two to thoroughly visit the web sites of the National Park Service/Liberty National Monument, not to mention Statue Cruises, the official transport company for the statue.

Here’s a quick summary from those sites:

PLAN IN ADVANCE. Buy your transport and statue tickets on line as far in advance as possible and try to get to Battery Park (highly recommended over New Jersey’s Liberty State Park, the other embarkation point to Liberty Island) well before your planned departure. A wait time of several hours is not out of the ordinary.

Plan for the crown visit and the audio or ranger tour. It makes a huge

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