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Attractions near Selma

Appalachian Trail & 24 more attractions near Selma

25 notable places within 60 miles of Selma: 3 national park units, 2 ski areas, and the sights travelers look up most.

Attractions nearby
25
within 60 miles
The big one
43 mi
Appalachian Trail
National park units
3
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Snowshoe Mountain
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Park & preserve · 43 mi southwest

Appalachian Trail

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

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What’s around Selma

Orange: Selma. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below.

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Best known first

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

Appalachian Trail

Park & preserve · 43 mi southwest · 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 · 24 mi southeast · 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

Parks and trails in Selma → · Selma’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 · Shenandoah National Park: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · New River Gorge National Park and Preserve: NKS22, 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 · Cass Scenic Railroad State Park: Shayfan at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Monongahela National Forest: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0 · National D-Day Memorial: RebelAt at English Wikipedia, 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 · Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia: Woody Hibbard from Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0 · O. Winston Link Museum: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Hahn Horticulture Garden: Kim Peterson, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Sunshine Farm and Gardens: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0

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