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Attractions near Boones Mill

Worth the trip from Boones Mill: Appalachian Trail, 29 mi off

A typical year brings about 16.5M visitors to Blue Ridge Parkway. Nothing on our list is inside Boones Mill; the 14 places to visit are within 40 miles. The mix takes in 5 museums, 2 lakes and a park & preserve. Out of town, Project Greek Island is 50 mi away.

Attractions nearby
21
within 60 miles
The big one
29 mi
Appalachian Trail
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Park & preserve · 29 mi northwest

Appalachian Trail

2,198.4-mile (3,538 km) trail going through fourteen US states managed by the National Park Service.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Map of the places

The outermost point is Mountain Lake, at 36 mi.

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Orange: Boones Mill. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

All the places to visit

You will find all 21 within 60 miles.

Appalachian Trail

Park & preserve · 29 mi northwest · read 307K times a year on Wikipedia

2,198.4-mile (3,538 km) trail going through fourteen US states managed by the National Park Service.

3.0M visitors a year

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 6 mi northwest · read 93K times a year on Wikipedia

Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.

16.5M visitors a year

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Boones Mill → · Boones Mill’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Appalachian Trail: Paulba. Original uploader was Paulbalegend at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Project Greek Island: Z22, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lane Stadium: User:B, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mountain Lake: Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Smith Mountain Lake: Jay White, Public domain · Hanging Rock State Park: Jacalyn Engler from Greensboro, United States, CC BY-SA 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 · Taubman Museum of Art: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0 · Lost World Caverns: Lee Paxton, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Booker T. Washington National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · O. Winston Link Museum: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Virginia Museum of Natural History: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 · Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Glencoe Museum: Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hahn Horticulture Garden: Kim Peterson, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain

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