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Oh The Places To Go
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items Great Places To Go in The Shenadoah Valley and The Surrounding Areas
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Outdoor Activities
If you love Harry Potter then Queen City Mischief and Magic is just for you. I go every year and it is so much fun. The people that dress up as characters their costumes are so genuine. There is so much to do for every age group. You may be walking d...
Queen City Magic
If you love lavendar this place will be heaven for you. They have a shop that has a variety of lavendar infused products from lotions, soaps, oils and even ice cream. They also have a winery that has lavendar infused wines. You can also pick lavendar...
White Oak Lavender Farm & The Purple WOLF Vineyard
Beautiful botanical garden on the James Madison University campus. There are a variety of plants, trees and flowers. There are benches, walking paths and d9g friendly. Beautiful and peaceful place to take in all it's beauty.
Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
Gypsy Hill Park is a 214 acre beautiful park that has so many activities for everyone. They have playgrounds, picnic area and grills, dog park, skate park, golf course and handstand for concerts and so much more. Every Christmas they have a drive thr...
Gypsy Hill Park
You have to check out the Virginia Safari Park if you love animals. It's a 180 acre drive thru safari park. You can feed their 1,200 rare and endangered species on their 3 mile gravel road with a bucket of feed out your window. The animals come up to...
Virginia Safari Park
Restaurants
Ciros in Verona has the best Italian food. My favorite in their Stromboli and I love you can customize it to want you want on it and the portion sizes are huge. Their calzone is great and their pizza is amazing.
Ciro's Pizza (verona)
The Depot Grille in Staunton is a truly unique experience. It's a restaurant that is set ina historic rail depot with beam ceilings. They have appetizers, salads, sandwiches, pasta, seafood, steaks, ribs ,chicken and desserts and kids meal. There hot...
Depot Grille
Arts & Entertainment
The American Shakespeare Center is a recreation of Shakespeare's indoor theatre. They regularly have plays by Shakespeare and every Christmas they do Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" They actors are so interactive with the audience it is truly a u...
American Shakespeare Center
The Frontier Culture Museum is an open air living history museum. They have reenactors portraying different time periods through history. The actors always stay in character and you can really experience what it was like to live during that period. I...
Frontier Culture Museum
Great place to visit if you have kids. It's about a 2hr drive from the Shenandoah Valley. The museum has all kinds of interactive stations for kids to let their imagination go. There's even a life size operation game. A great day trip to take the kid...
Children's Museum of Richmond
Things To Do
The Green Valley Book Fair is a booklets dream. It's a discount book outlet and you can save upto 90% off retail prices. You can also go on their website and have books shipped to you. They have books on a variety of subjects and they always have dif...
Green Valley Book Fair
If you love antiques, you will be sure to come to the Factory Antique Mall. The mall is the largest in America with over 140,000 square feet of antiques. They have everything amd anything an Antique lover could want. I have spent hours in their befor...
Factory Antique Mall
Overlook Produce started out in the owners front yard with a small produce stand. They have bloomed into an indoor market and deli and bakery. They grow alotof their own produce and feature local goods. In the fall they have a corn maze and pick your...
Overlook Produce, Bakery & Deli
Luray Caverns is such a beautiful, unique experience. It a tunnel of underground caverns. You will be mesmerized by seeing such natural formations. Definitely someplace to stop and check out.
Luray Caverns
The Highland County Maple Festival is something we all can't wait for here in the Shenandoah Valley. If you love maple this is festival for you. They have maple everything. Maple syrup, maple pancakes, maple donuts that people line up for is very pop...
Maple Festival - Highland County Chamber of Commerce
The Science Museum is kid focused with hands on activities about the human body, animals, Science and the environment. There's even an art lab. Great day trip for the kids.
Science Museum of Virginia