The shuttle is provided to enable you to arrive at the step-off location Thursday, to begin the pilgrimage, so that at the end of the pilgrimage, Sunday, you can recover your vehicle at the destination shrine, instead of finding your own way back to the starting-point.
Q. What if I use public transportation (PT) to come to pilgrimage?
A. You need the shuttle if you use public transportation (PT) to arrive Thursday for pilgrimage, and/or to depart with PT after pilgrimage, Sunday. When you request the shuttle pilgrim-servants will retrieve you from the PT hub — airport, rail station, or bus terminal — and bring you, with gear & luggage, to check-in at Wood Park, in Lake George Village. Most pilgrims overnight in Wood Park, reserved to the pilgrimage. If you chose to lodge in a hotel in Lake George Village, the shuttle drivers will bring you to your lodgings after you check-in.
Q. What if I am driving a vehicle to pilgrimage, like most pilgrims?
A. There are two options:
Option 1.
If you are driving solo, with no passengers, you drive directly to the National Shrine of Our Lady’s Martyrs at Auriesville, arriving no later than 7:45pm. There you park your vehicle in the lot behind the Coliseum church until Sunday, when you’ll be rejoined with it at end of pilgrimage. Pilgrim-servants meet you there, and drive you and your gear to check-in at Wood Park in Lake George Village. To do that, request the shuttle.
First shuttle departs the Auriesville Shrine at 2:00pm.
LAST SHUTTLE DEPARTS AURIESVILLE SHRINE AT 8:00 P.M. Thursday evening, September 25.
Option 2.
Drivers bringing passengers must first drop all passengers and gear at Wood Park in Lake George Village to check-in. Then, the driver drives alone (and without gear) to the destination Shrine in Auriesville, to park there until Sunday, when pilgrims retrieve their vehicles. Pilgrim-servants meet you there, and drive you (no gear) to check-in at Wood Park in Lake George Village. To accomplish that, you must request the shuttle.
To repeat: the first shuttle departs the Auriesville Shrine at 2:00pm.
LAST SHUTTLE DEPARTS AURIESVILLE SHRINE AT 8:00 P.M. Thursday evening, September 25.
Q. What if we are participating in the ‘modified events’, and keeping our vehicle (e.g. family van or RV) all three days of pilgrimage?
A. Please tell us that when you submit the form linked here.
Q. What if I am one of the scores of pilgrim-servants who serve the other pilgrims, and thus need my vehicle to help them?
A. Please tell other pilgrim-organizers — so we can report to other servants who need to know — by submitting the same form.
NOTE: The shuttle request form provides you with step-by-step instructions and an overview of the process.
You must therefore submit the form to organizers — even if you assume you will not need to use the shuttle service it arranges.
In sum, to obtain the help of organizers and to plan with them to arrive at check-in Thursday (which is also the step-off location Friday morning), and in order also to be reunited with your vehicle after Mass or return to your PT port Sunday, you must submit this form no later than Sunday, 21 September 2025.
Q. What if I need help to find a ride to pilgrimage, or to form a car-pool with other pilgrims?
A. The organizer in charge of the shuttle & responsible to answer all transportation questions can help you — at your request — to find a ride or to form a car-pool: but only after you submit the same form.
In every case, pilgrims & pilgrim-organizers need to plan, together, in advance.
Submitting the shuttle request facilitates your transportation Thursday, September 25, from the arrival parking lot behind the Coliseum church at the destination Shrine in Auriesville to Thursday’s check-in at the step-off location, and again Friday morning, September 26 from motel to the rendezvous point with your brigade at the step-off location.
Request the shuttle only after registering & submitting the fee.
Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.
30th annual — 2025 A.D.
Friday – Sunday
26-28 September
“Now is the acceptable time.”
Registration is open.
Click here to register. It’s simple and easy.
Can’t make it this year? You can still make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim, request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
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“No one makes pilgrimage alone.”
Oremus pro invicem.
In unione orationum.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
“Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
