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Lake Gordon

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The hidden gem fishing lake in Mecklenburg County!  Less known than nearby Kerr and Gaston lakes, Lake Gordon is a serene and quiet spot located just off of Hwy 58, a few miles west of downtown South Hill. This 157-acre, Department lake in Mecklenburg County, has a very good largemouth bass population. Recent sampling showed many bass over 15 inches, Read more...
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The Peaks Retreat and Adventure Center

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Looking for the perfect getaway in the Blue Ridge Mountains? Only 30 minutes from Roanoke, Virginia, the Peaks Retreat and Adventure Center offers a unique experience for tourists and adventurers alike. Whether you’re seeking a relaxing weekend or an exciting adventure, we have everything you need any time of year. Stay in one of our charming glamping sites, each capable Read more...
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White Rock Stables

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White Rocks Stables offers a ‘fun for the whole family’ experience with several locations recommended for riders ranging from novice to the most experienced of horseman. In the near future we hope to offer a wide range of equine related services as well!!! Come experience a journey on horseback through the historical Cumberland Gap National Park to the top of the White Rocks, Read more...
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River Traders

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Located near Staunton River State Park, we offer tackle and bait for fishing. Pontoon, canoes, kayaks and fishing boats for rent. Read more...
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Bootleggers Run

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Bootlegger’s Run – part of the Jagged Edge Motorcycle Trail – is a 30-mile drive between the towns of Floyd and Ferrum. This drive features over 100 curves, passes by beautiful views and goes through an area rich in moonshine traditions. Read more...
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Buffalo Mountain Disc Golf

Our PDGA sanctioned disc golf course in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. An 18 hole course with 2 tee pads and 2 baskets allowing for 4 layouts to play. Perfect for recreational players or professionals. The course has woods, elevation, casual water, open fields and gorgeous surrounding. A destination course with cabins available to rent on the 100 acre Read more...
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Smart View Recreational Area

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Smart View Recreational Area offers several hiking trails and picnic areas. Located along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Smart View also offers excellent views of the Virginia Piedmont. Various trails meander through moist deciduous woodlands, hardwood forests, and open fields. This site is great place to bird during spring migration, but summer also is productive with breeders such as hooded, Kentucky, Read more...
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Staunton River Battlefield State Park

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This park is a 300-acre Civil War historic site where a ragtag group of 700 Confederate older men and young boys beat the odds and held off an assault by 5,000 Union cavalry on a bridge of strategic importance to Gen. Lee’s army, then under siege in Petersburg. Visit the Confederate earthworks and walk the historic bridge trail. Two visitor Read more...
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Infinity Acres Petting Ranch

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CALL NOW TO RESERVE!! ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS!! (Better than any petting zoo) CAMP AT THE ZOO!! ANIMAL ADVENTURE SUMMER CAMP!! COME & MEET THE FRIENDLY & UNUSUAL ANIMALS OF INFINITY ACRES RANCH!!!  EASY TO RESERVE YOUR SPECIAL ANIMAL ENCOUNTER!! JUST CALL 276-358-2378 Ready to camp??? BOOK HERE!   https://www.hipcamp.com/virginia/infinity-acres-ranch/infinity-acres-petting-ranch Walk a LLAMA!  Selfies with the CAMEL! Baby Bottles to the KANGAROO OR Read more...
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Grassy Hill Natural Area Preserve Hiking Trails

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Hikers can trek up to 6.6 miles on the Grassy Hill Hiking Trail System that starts at the base in Rocky Mount, Va., and climbs to the ridge line with two trail loops along the ridge top and side slopes. Most of the trail system is in the Grassy Hill Natural Area Preserve, a 1,295-acre site owned and managed by Read more...
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Virginia Maple Syrup Trail – Highland County

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To further “tap” into what Highland County is most known for, Highland County has introduced the Virginia Maple Syrup Trail!  This passport program offers visitors the chance to visit seven sugar camps in Highland County throughout the year, excluding the busy Maple Festival weeks and weekends, to experience each unique camp.  Two of the participating camps are not currently open to Read more...
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Flag Rock Area Trails

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The City of Norton’s Flag Rock Area Trails (FRAT) system offers eight miles of mountain bike trails that are also open to hikers, trail runners, cross country skiers, birders, and other “people-powered” activities. Trails travel through rhododendron-choked forested tunnels, past giant sandstone boulders and clifflines, and through beautiful hardwood forests as they wind through Flag Rock Recreation Area. The city-owned recreation Read more...
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Big Cherry Lake

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Enjoy kayaking, fishing and hiking at this beautiful mountain lake amidst the forest on Powell Mountain. Big Cherry Reservoir rests amid a magnificent mountain basin, with elevations  above sea level, varying from 3000 feet, downstream of Big Cherry Dam, to 4223 feet at its head on High Knob. Big Cherry is one of 5 managed lakes on this mountain top: Lake Elevation Read more...
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Glebe Hill Gardens

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Imagine gardens with hundreds of daylilies, in a rainbow of colors and a variety of shapes and sizes.  Imagine walkways down wooded paths with hostas of all sizes, leaves of yellow green, deep green, blue green, golden and white variegated.  Imagine a 270 foot man-made stream, beautifully landscaped, winding down a slope, with water cascading over rocks, down mini-waterfalls.  Alongside Read more...
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Town of Pulaski Splash Pad

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The Town of Pulaski Splash Pad is a blast for everyone—kids, adults, and even your furry friends! Located at Cool Springs Park, right on the corner of Dora Highway and Birch Street, it’s the perfect spot to cool off and have some fun in the sun.   Read more...
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Southern Hills Golf Course

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     Southern Hills is an 18 hole public golf course located in the heart of Danville, VA.  Featuring bent grass greens and bermuda grass fairways,  this is one of the best conditioned courses in the area.  Four different tee markers allows for a fun round of golf for the novice and from the championship tee enough challenge to engage Read more...
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Rocky Mount Bowling Center

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For a fun filled day or evening bring the family and enjoy our bowling center. Read more...
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Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) Trail Loop

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The Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) Trail Loop of is approximately 3/4 of a mile long natural surface trail used for hiking and mountain biking. The trail begins with crushed rock and changes to a natural surface with slopes and rises with the steepest part being the final leg back to trailhead. The trail winds through a wooded area and Read more...
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Bridgewater Marina & Boat Rentals

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Bridgewater Marina is the largest boat rental operation on Smith Mountain Lake. We offer everything needed to make your vacation fun, from WaveRunners, to Pontoons, to Ski Boats. We rent boats you can be proud to cruise the lake in. We even offer three rental locations to serve you better. We Also Offer: Full Service Gas Docks, Marina Store with Read more...
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Rudd’s Creek Marina

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Welcome to Rudd’s Creek Marina! Located on Buggs Island (Kerr) Lake in Boydton, VA, Rudd’s Creek Marina offers wet slip and covered shed boat storage as well as a gas dock, marine and convenience store. WE ARE NOW OPEN!! Find us by water between buoys 9 & 10, next to Rudd’s Creek Campground. For directions and more information, please email Read more...
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The Pro Shop at Danville Golf Club

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The DGC Pro Shop is stocked with Titleist golf balls, gloves and accessories, as well as Footjoy, Turtleson, Oxford and Kate Lord apparel for men and women. We are always accommodating of special orders and gift certificates and are constantly updating our shop inventory. Read more...
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Draper Valley Golf Club

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Full scale 18 hole Public Golf Course and Residental Community. Driving range and restaurant on premises. Rated one of best values by Golf Digest. Beautiful Mountain Views and plush grounds. Read more...
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Pulaski Country Club

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The 18-hole “Pulaski Country Club” course features 6,431 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72.  The course rating is 71.0 and it has a slope rating of 121.  A private membership facility but has guest fee specials.  Pulaski Country Club was formed in 1921.  Chris Byrd is presently the general manager.   Read more...
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Oak Grove Boat Access Facility on Smith Mountain Lake

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The Oak Grove Boat Access Facility is ideally located near Hales Ford Bridge on Smith Mountain Lake, a 20,600 acre lake with over 500 miles of picturesque shoreline surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 10-acre accessible facility offers public access to the lake’s natural beauty and recreational activities. It features a two-lane concrete boat ramp with courtesy piers, a Read more...
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Doe Run Farm

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From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Dan River,  Doe Run Farm grows a variety of products such as decorative and pie pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, and more!    FALL: Enjoy the 6-acre sunflower maze, hayrides, a bounce pad, an apple launcher, pumpkin bowling, fresh produce, pumpkins, fall decorations, apple pies, peanut butter delight, and sunflower maze t-shirts, to name a Read more...
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Brosville Walking Track

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Brosville Walking Track is a walking track that is located on school property. It is open to the public after school hours (after 3 p.m.), on the weekends and anytime during the summer (Memorial Day-Mid-August). Walking track – 6 laps = 1 mile Read more...
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Skate Park at J. Frank Wilson Park

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The Skate Park located at J. Frank Wilson Park is the place where skate lovers can practice their craft. Whether you love to ramp skate or do tricks with your skateboard, the skate park at Wilson Park will provide hours of fun and exercise. The skate park was designed by a group of youth who love to skate every available Read more...
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Pinnacle Natural Area Preserve

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Towering cliffs, sheer limestone ledges, and waterfalls are but a few of the spectacular features of this preserve. Located near the confluence of the Clinch River and Big Cedar Creek, the topography of Pinnacle NAP has been modified by the forces of weather, water, and time to create this dramatic landscape. Towering above Big Cedar Creek is an impressive rock Read more...
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Barn Quilt Trail

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Stitching local communities together one barn quilt at a time. Drive through beautiful Patrick County and peek at the unique collection of barn quilts around every corner. Find the latest trail information on their Facebook page! Read more...
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Smith River Access – Bassett

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Henry County Parks and Recreation provides easy access for paddlers to the Smith River. This public river access point behind Bassett Furniture Co. has convenient parking. In this relatively urban portion of the Smith River, paddlers will view what remains of a once vibrant furniture manufacturing industry along the river’s banks in Bassett and Stanleytown. This section, featuring Class I Read more...
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Devils Fork Trail System

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Located primarily on an old logging grade. You will pass many scenic areas such as a 20′ waterfall, mountain overlooks and the Devils Bathtub which is an excellent area where hikers will see the stream racing down a rock chute, shirl through the tub and race downstream. Read more...
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Hanging Rock Picnic Area

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This picnic area features 18 picnic units with table and grill or fireplace. A group shelter is also available. Hanging Rock Picnic area is located beside Little Stony Creek in a hardwood forest with rhododendron and hemlocks. Huge rock cliffs along the creek and the sound of rushing water add to the natural beauty of the area. Little Stony Creek Read more...
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Blue Ridge Bicycle Club of Virginia

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The Blue Ridge Bicycle Club, based out of Roanoke, Virginia, is Southwest Virginia’s connection to the world of cycling. The club hosts a number of special events, group rides and weekend getaways for all levels, both on and off road. One important rule of thumb for those who participate or are members of the BRBC – having fun is required! Read more...
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Pine Spur Scenic Overlook – Blue Ridge Parkway

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Scenic overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Franklin County, Virginia. Named for the pine tree which is depicted on Parkway emblem.  Elevation 2,703 feet above mean sea level.   Read more...
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Clift Street Mini-Playground

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Have you been planning a special day out for family or with friends? There’s no time like the present. Set up a date to have that long overdue picnic at Clift Street Mini-Playground. Our picnic area is a perfect place to hold your next birthday party or family reunion. There are lots of amenities to make your visit very pleasant. Read more...
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Big Stone Gap Loop

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Big Stone Gap isn’t just the name of a movie, it’s also a town with a number of interesting sites to explore. Take a short trip around Fraley Park or a more strenuous trek on Roaring Fork and enjoy the stunning rhododendron thickets, cascading waters, and moss-covered rocks. 200-year old eastern hemlock, yellow poplar, yellow birch, and Fraser trees heavily Read more...

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