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- a former trash dump that now offers the city's highest elevation (perfect for kite flying) plus a gigantic, nautical-themed wooden playground...
- a park featuring a disc course for Frisbee golf players (plus a really unique playground for the kids), to...
- the most remote park in Virginia.
If you want to see fabulous fall foliage check out the National Parks Foundation website for their best fall foliage spots by state. You'll find details on hours, fees, and directions, plus a weekly fall color report-- a detailed guide on what colors are out at each park!
For Virginia, they recommend Shenandoah National Park, and even have a Mountain Web cam so you'll know the best time to visit.
And if you want to learn how to visit more than 100 national parks for free, scroll down...
Back Bay Wildlife Refuge
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| Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. Charlie Smith © 2010-2013 |
Which of the Virginia Beach parks has nearly 8,000 acres of marshes, sand dunes, beaches, and ponds?
What is home to 300 species of birds, deer, mink, and other creatures? Back Bay Wildlife Refuge.
To find out why Back Bay is a perfect place to stop, recharge, and get away from it all, click here.
False Cape State Park
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| Photo by Liz Paton © 2010-2013 |
To find out why False Cape makes you feel like the first settlers when they met Pocahontas, click here.
Mount Trashmore
Build the new park on a heap of trash? R-i-g-h-t...
In the beginning, the locals thought it was a joke. Now the joke's on them. Despite it's hokey name, Mount Trashmore is a paragon of waste management. Why can't they do this with all dumps?
What used to be 750,000 tons of trash has been transformed into one of the top Virginia Beach parks. Topped by its 68-foot summit (the highest point in the city, proudly flaunting "Mount Trashmore" on its grass-covered flank) this park has everything.
Fly a kite or launch your model airplane from its summit. Feed the ducks and geese. Stroll on over to Kids Cove, a huge wooden playground featuring mazes, bridges, ramps and slides. The perfect place to play pirate!
One caveat: this park is so popular it can get crowded! Still, where else can your kids boast "I played in a dump!"
Open 7:30 am to sunset. Location: 310 Edwin Dr. - Virginia Beach - 757-473-5237.
Bayville Farms Park
Why should the kids have all the fun?
Yes, you...um...they...will be thrilled to burn off that excess energy conquering the innovative playground's swinging tires and climbing towers at one of the most innovative Virginia Beach Parks.
But let's face it: adults, this park is for you too! Now's your chance to burn off your own calories and aggression at the city's only disc course for Frisbee golf. (Actually, we hear its one of the toughest courses in the country.)
What is Frisbee golf? Just how it sounds. Substitute a frisbee for a golf ball and a flick of the wrist for the 5 iron. Just what the doctor ordered.
Open sunrise to sunset. Location: First Court Road - Virginia Beach - 757-460-7569.
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Here's How to Visit Select Parks for Free!
Ahh, nature. Seems like it should be free, and at 400 US National Parks it is.
But up to 100 US National Parks charge an entrance fee-- unless you're visiting on select fee-free days.
Those fees will be waived around these holidays and events:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend (Jan 14-16)
- National Park Week (April 21-29)
- The first day of summer in June (June 9)
- Public Lands Day (Sept. 29)
- Veterans Day Weekend (November 10-12)
In Virginia, that means you can save when you visit these parks:
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
- Assateague Island National Seashore
- Colonial National Historical Park
- George Washington Memorial Parkway's Great Falls Park
- Manassas National Battlefield Park
- Petersburg National Battlefield
- Prince William Forest Park
- Shenandoah National Park
Colonial National Historical Park includes the sites of Historic Jamestowne and Yorktown Battlefield-- two amazing historic spots you can easily enjoy in a day's visit. Here's why these places make our "Cheap Family Vacation Hall of Fame" list.
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