Park Size
This park comes in at 2.8 total acres.
What is Southwest Virginia Museum?
This park has "gold-laced hills".
What is Lake Anna?
This park holds an event each mid-September to celebrate North America's largest fruit.
What is Powhatan?
On this exact date, Virginia became the first state to open an entire system of six state parks at once.
What is June 15, 1936?
This long-time trails legislation sunsets as of January 1st, 2027.
What is STAC legislation?
This park comes in at over 1000 acres, roughly divided between two major units of similar size.
What is Machicomoco?
This park attracts visitors "like a bumblebee to a flower".
What is Shenandoah River?
Trail users at this riverfront park can walk the aptly named Bluebell Trail each April, enjoying a carpet of this stunning wildflower for about three weeks.
What is Shenandoah River?
Hayfields State Park was officially dedicated by the Governor during October of this year.
What is 2025?
The enabling legislation for the Virginia Scenic Rivers Program was first passed in this year.
What is 1970?
At approximately 543 acres, this park is bisected into two similarly sized tracts by a railroad.
What is Leesylvania?
This park showcases "the journeys of goods, people, and armies".
What is High Bridge Trail?
Each spring, this park joins in with the local community for a pretty sweet event celebrating the sugar maple and its products.
What is Hayfields?
In this year, Chippokes Plantation State Park was renamed to Chippokes State Park.
What is 2020?
This House Bill directs DCR to facilitate at-grade pedestrian crossing requests between trail partners and the railroads.
What is HB2088?
This park is the longest in the system, coming in at around 57 miles.
What is New River Trail?
"Bountiful forests and rivers, lush greenery, and valuable minerals have all welcomed the people who settled here throughout the ages."
What is Southwest Virginia Museum?
Terrapins and bobwhites love the habitat at Machicomoco, but unfortunately this plant is taking over much of their habitat.
What is Callery Pear?
President Roosevelt launched the CCC, later important to developing Virginia’s State Parks, in this year.
What is 1933?
DGS Fleet Services in Richmond operates off of this road, close to the Science Museum and The Diamond.
The southside park includes approximately 25 miles of trails and 2690 acres of parkland.
What is Occoneechee?
Here, "an ancient path of least resistance led throngs of explorers seeking a better life."
What is Wilderness Road?
Visitors walking around the backside of Natural Tunnel can see spring ephemerals such as bloodroot, trout lily and this three-petaled woodland wildflower.
What is Trillium?
Virginia first received the National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Parks and Recreation Management in this year.
What is 2001?
ESRI is an acronym for this.
What is the Environmental Systems Research Institute?