Partake in an immersive culinary experience, complete with garden tour, hands-on demonstrations and, of course, wine.
Partake in an immersive culinary experience, complete with garden tour, hands-on demonstrations and, of course, wine.
Take in local flora and fauna at this garden, located inside McIntire Park.
This bagel shop has a huge following of both locals and visitors who wait in line for the freshly-baked New York-style bagels.
Tucked away in the side streets of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, The Alley Light offers classic French shared plates, craft cocktails and small grower wines in a casually elegant atmosphere. Or rather, a comfortable place to have a well made drink and bite to eat.
Family-owned bed & breakfast.
The Virginia Museum of Transportation fires the imagination! The whole family can enjoy decades-old steam locomotives while watching modern trains zoom by on busy active tracks. Don’t miss two “last of their class” steam giants: the N&W Class J 611 and the N&W Class A 1218. The museum is located in downtown Roanoke’s century-old freight station in the heart of Virginia’s Rail Heritage Region. Explore our extensive collection of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, rail cars, and model trains. Visitors love our antique cars, trucks, and aviation exhibits, too. The Museum Store offers hard-to-find books, DVDs, toys and gifts. After your visit, stroll along the Goode Railwalk to the O. Winston Link Museum to watch trains and enjoy hands-on exhibits about Roanoke’s rail history. The Museum is Virginia’s official transportation museum.
The Liberty Trust is a 54-room boutique, historic, luxury hotel located in the heart of downtown Roanoke, Virginia. With custom-made furnishings, top-quality detailing and finishes, and upscale amenities, the hotel’s design is significantly inspired by its original standing as the former historic First National Bank headquarters that was constructed in the early 20th century. The hotel is the only member of the prestigious Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Connect Collection in Virginia’s Blue Ridge. All guests of The Liberty Trust are eligible to enroll in the I Prefer Hotel Rewards program, which extends points redeemable for cash-value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary Internet to members upon every stay at more than 650 participating Preferred Hotels & Resorts locations worldwide.
The Taubman Museum of Art is part of the lively metro mountain mix of arts, culture and outdoor fun in the heart of downtown Roanoke, Virginia.
The Museum offers 11 galleries as part of the Fralin Center for American Art and presents 15-20 exhibitions per year. Featured artists have ranged from Kehinde Wiley to John James Audubon and from Yoko Ono to Norman Rockwell. The Museum is also home to a respected permanent collection featuring the work of artists such as Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Purvis Young, Petah Coyne and John Cage, to name just a few.
Art Venture, the Museum’s hands-on creativity center for kids, offers 14 art-making stations with projects tied to the exhibitions on view. Families can enjoy the galleries, then get creative making their own masterpieces together.
Daily general admission is free, and the Museum offers one to two special ticketed exhibitions per year. Art Venture is $5 per person and free for children under 2.
Hours of operation are Friday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 12-5 p.m. Virtual programming is offered on the Museum’s web site and social media channels.
For more information, visit www.TaubmanMuseum.org or call (540) 342-5760.
The Roanoke River Blueway is currently accessible at 17 local, state, federal, and private river access points. Amenities available at each Blueway access generally include parking, trash receptacle, and information kiosk, with some access points having additional amenities such as canoe/kayak ramps, restrooms, picnic shelters, and multi-use trails. One location, Green Hill Park, will have a handicap accessible fishing pier, and the river is viewable and can be fished from several locations along the Roanoke River Greenway, a paved multi-use trail which runs alongside the blueway.
The 45-mile Roanoke River Blueway (water trail) runs from the South Fork Roanoke River at East Montgomery County Park to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) Hardy Ford boating access at Hardy Road (634) in Bedford County at Smith Mountain Lake. The Roanoke River Flows flow through, connects or borders seven localities in the upper Roanoke River watershed including:
City of Roanoke
City of Salem
Montgomery County
Roanoke County
Bedford County
Franklin County
Town of Vinton
The Roanoke River Blueway provides river access for canoeing, kayaking, fishing, tubing, wading, wildlife viewing, and other recreational opportunities, while connecting to numerous local parks, Roanoke River Greenway, Tinker Creek Greenway, Mill Mountain Greenway, Blue Ridge Parkway, Explore Park, and Smith Mountain Lake. The Roanoke River Blueway also includes sections of the South Fork Roanoke River, Tinker Creek, and Back Creek.
Built in 1949 and visible from just about every part of the Valley is this splendidly illuminated, 100 foot-tall Star situated on the top of Mill Mountain. Native Americans wandering between the parallel ridges of the Allegheny Mountains named their great valley Shenandoah, “daughter of the stars.” Roanoke is known as the “Star City of the South”.