This 50, 000-acre lake on the Virginia - North Carolina border is one of the largest manmade lakes in the southeast, noted for its record striped bass catches and camping facilities.
A designated National Natural Landmark, Caledon provides visitors the unique opportunity of viewing bald eagles in their natural habitat.
Located on the 4, 500 acre, 21-mile long Claytor Lake (from which the park was named) in the New River Valley of southwestern Virginia, Claytor Lake State Park offers a wide variety of activities for water and land enthusiasts.
This park serves as a Virginia Beach Tourism satellite location and has new displays, three indoor aquariums, restrooms, showers and offers water sports rentals. It's Virginia's most popular state park attracting more than a million visitors annually.
Hungry Mother State Park in southwestern Virginia is noted for its woodlands and lake.
Although situated on the second largest body of freshwater in the state, Smith Mountain Lake State Park is not just for water enthusiasts.
Staunton River State Park is one of the six original state parks that opened in June 1936. It is located on 1, 597 acres along the shoreline of the John H. Kerr Reservoir (also known as Buggs Island Lake), as well as the Dan and Staunton rivers.
Twin Lakes State Park, centrally located in Virginia's Piedmont region, provides visitors from all over the Commonwealth with a variety of lakefront activities in a secluded setting.
Editors of the 1999 Outside Family Vacation Guide, a summer planner, have named Virginia*s very own Douthat State Park one of the nation's 10 best. It's on the National Register of Historic Places and straddles Bath and Alleghany counties.
Westmoreland State Park lies within Westmoreland County, from which it takes its name. The park extends about one and a half miles along the Potomac River, and its 1, 299 acres neighbor the former homes of both George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
Hemlock Overlook Center for Outdoor Education is jointly operated by George Mason University and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.
Located on the scenic Potomac shore near the Loudoun-Fairfax County line, Algonkian Regional Park is the perfect place for an afternoon of fun in the sun, a family vacation or even your wedding. The park includes Downpour!
This 50, 000-acre lake on the Virginia - North Carolina border is one of the largest manmade lakes in the southeast, noted for its record striped bass catches and camping facilities.
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania?this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War?s tragic cost, in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted.
Walk the old country lanes where Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his men to Ulysses Grant, General-in-Chief of all United States forces, on April 9, 1865.
Established in 1936, Prince William Forest Park, Located in Prince William County, Virginia, is the largest protected natural area in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region at over 14, 000 acres.
Shenandoah National Park lies astride a beautiful section of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form the eastern rampart of the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and Georgia.
This 50, 000-acre lake on the Virginia - North Carolina border is one of the largest manmade lakes in the southeast, noted for its record striped bass catches and camping facilities.