Blue Ridge Parkway
Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.
Attractions near Amherst
15 mi from Amherst, Blue Ridge Parkway leads the list
Roughly 16.5M visitors a year make it to Blue Ridge Parkway. None of our places to visit is inside Amherst; 10 are within 40 miles. There are 4 museums, 2 landmarks and a parkway to choose from. Further afield, Smith Mountain Lake is 46 mi from the centre.
Attractions nearby
25
within 60 miles
The big one
15 mi
Blue Ridge Parkway
National park units
3
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Wintergreen Ski Resort
Parkway · 15 mi west
Blue Ridge Parkway
Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The map
The places, mapped
The outermost point is Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial, at 39 mi.
Orange: Amherst. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Everything nearby
The whole list for Amherst
All 25 on the list lie within 60 miles.
2Shenandoah National Park
195,000 acres in Virginia (US) maintained by the National Park Service.
3Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
1,700 acres in Virginia (US) managed by the National Park Service.
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8Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial
1,000 acres in Virginia (USA), maintained by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation.
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12Booker T. Washington National Monument
224 acres managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
13Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia
Living history museum in Staunton, Virginia, United States.
14Robert Russa Moton Museum
High school in Farmville, Virginia, United States.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
Art Museum in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Paramount Theater
Theater and movie theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College
Art museum at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Lynchburg Courthouse
Is a historic courthouse building located at Lynchburg, Virginia..
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Amherst → · Amherst’s history →
Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits
Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Shenandoah National Park: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Appomattox Court House National Historical Park: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Smith Mountain Lake: Jay White, Public domain · Scott Stadium: Mak7912, CC BY-SA 3.0 · John Paul Jones Arena: Bob Mical, CC BY 2.0 · National D-Day Memorial: RebelAt at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial: Jamestown Official Photo Corp., Public domain · Virginia Museum of Transportation: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Market Street Park: Chad Fennell, CC BY 2.0 · Taubman Museum of Art: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0 · Booker T. Washington National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia: Woody Hibbard from Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Robert Russa Moton Museum: William T. Ziglar, Jr., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fralin Museum of Art: SharpCrumbs, CC0 · Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, CC BY-SA 4.0 · O. Winston Link Museum: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Paramount Theater: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0 · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain
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