Places to visit in Lynchburg, led by Anne Spencer House
Roughly 16.5M visitors a year make it to Blue Ridge Parkway. We list 3 places to visit inside Lynchburg and 7 within 40 miles. There are 3 museums, 2 landmarks and a parkway to choose from. The trip to Shenandoah National Park is 48 mi.
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 lie of the land
The map stretches to Wintergreen Ski Resort, 39 mi away.
Orange: Lynchburg. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of it
3 in town lead, with 21 more within 60 miles after them.
1Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College
Art museum at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
3Lynchburg Courthouse
Is a historic courthouse building located at Lynchburg, Virginia..
Blue Ridge Parkway
Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.
5Shenandoah National Park
195,000 acres in Virginia (US) maintained by the National Park Service.
6Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
1,700 acres in Virginia (US) managed by the National Park Service.
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11Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial
1,000 acres in Virginia (USA), maintained by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation.
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Booker T. Washington National Monument
224 acres managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia
Living history museum in Staunton, Virginia, United States.
Robert 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.
The places inside Lynchburg lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Lynchburg → · Lynchburg’s history →
Photo credits
Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · 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 · Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0
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