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Attractions near Portsmouth

Leave Portsmouth for Colonial Williamsburg, 34 mi away

Yearly visitors to Colonial National Historical Park number about 1.6M. None of our places to visit is inside Portsmouth; 44 are within 40 miles. On the list: 21 museums, 4 zoos & aquariums and 4 theatres, among others. Werowocomoco is worth a day, 41 mi from the centre.

Attractions nearby
48
within 60 miles
The big one
10 mi
Fort Monroe National Monument
National park units
3
parks & monuments
National Monument · 10 mi north

Fort Monroe National Monument

Former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

How they lie

At 40 mi, Williamsburg Botanical Garden is the farthest one out.

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

Everything nearby

All the places to visit

The list runs to 48 places, all within 60 miles.

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

Parks and trails in Portsmouth → · Portsmouth’s history →

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

Colonial Williamsburg: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 2.0 · Busch Gardens Williamsburg: Cjh1452000, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Monroe National Monument: Unknown, Public domain · Jamestown Settlement: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Werowocomoco: engraved by William Hole, Public domain · MacArthur Memorial: Unknown, Public domain · Norfolk Scope: Cag1970, Public domain · Governor's Palace: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0 · Nauticus: Ewelch1, CC BY 3.0 · Mount Trashmore Park: Kubigula (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chrysler Museum of Art: Gosscj at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Presidents Park: David from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0 · Colonial Parkway: Unknown National Park Service photographer, Public domain · Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region, CC BY 2.0 · Historic Jamestowne: NPS Photo, Public domain · Water Country USA: Noah Barger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · First Landing State Park: Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0 · Military Aviation Museum: Jnc, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Colonial National Historical Park: No machine-readable author provided. Aude assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 · Petersburg National Battlefield: Ernest Mettendorf, Public domain · Virginia Aquarium: Rlevse, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Mariners' Museum: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hampton Roads Naval Museum: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Moore House (Yorktown, Virginia): Navin75, CC BY-SA 2.0 · U.S. Army Transportation Museum: Mytwocents (talk) 23:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC), Public domain · Virginia Zoological Park: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Norva Theatre: Faithlessthewonderboy, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Virginia Air and Space Science Center: NASA Langley Research Center, Public domain · Chrysler Hall: Hampton Road Partnership, CC BY 2.0 · Norfolk Botanical Garden: MamaGeek at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Harrison Opera House: VirginiaProp at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Virginia Living Museum: Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Air Power Park: William Grimes at English Wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Ian Duns, Public domain · Chesapeake Arboretum: Puddin Tain, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Muscarelle Museum of Art: Jrcla2, Public domain · Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art: Rachel Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ferguson Center for the Arts: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum: Smash the Iron Cage, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Huntington Park: Mytwocents at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Edenton National Fish Hatchery: USFWS, Public domain · Isle of Wight County Museum: Isle of Wight County Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Town Point Park: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0

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