Get in touch with mother nature at Happy Hollow Gardens. Walk the two miles of dirt trails through a dense wooded area. Have lunch at the rentable shelter while you take in the peaceful and beautiful surroundings. Visit during the month of April for the area’s most spectacular floral display, as a large garen of Azeleas are in blume. Happy Read more...

In autumn, the forest slopes and ridgetops of Poor Mountain are brightened by the brilliant yellow foliage of piratebush. Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve protects the world’s largest population of this globally rare shrub, which is restricted to only a handful of sites in the mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The mountain is named for its impoverished soils Read more...

To date, 26 miles of greenways with bicycle/pedestrian trails have been built in the Roanoke Valley, with additional hubs of natural surface trails at Mill Mountain, Carvins Cove, and Read Mountain.  Read more...