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Attractions near Staunton

Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is Staunton’s place to visit

Roughly 16.5M visitors a year make it to Blue Ridge Parkway. The town itself has one place on our list; 12 others are within 40 miles. There are 3 museums, 2 stadiums & arenas and 2 ski areas to choose from. Beyond the town, the best known is Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, 54 mi off.

Attractions nearby
25
within 60 miles
The big one
13 mi
Shenandoah National Park
National park units
2
parks & monuments
Ski areas
3
Snowshoe Mountain
National Park · 13 mi east

Shenandoah National Park

195,000 acres in Virginia (US) maintained by the National Park Service.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

The lie of the land

Head to the east for most of the 12 on the list.

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

Everything nearby

Full list of places

First the one in town, then the 24 within 60 miles.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 14 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
Towns near it → · Official site · Wikipedia

The places inside Staunton 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 Staunton →

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

Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia: Woody Hibbard from Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · Appomattox Court House National Historical Park: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Luray Caverns: Paulo Ordoveza from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0 · Scott Stadium: Mak7912, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Skyline Drive: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Spruce Mountain: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cass Scenic Railroad State Park: Shayfan at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Monongahela National Forest: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0 · John Paul Jones Arena: Bob Mical, CC BY 2.0 · George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: Aneta Kaluzna, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Market Street Park: Chad Fennell, CC BY 2.0 · Fralin Museum of Art: SharpCrumbs, CC0 · Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Paramount Theater: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Exchange Hotel: Rutke421 (talk) 23:13, 9 August 2008 (UTC), Public domain · Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Boxerwood Gardens: uploaded with permission by User:Leonard G.., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain

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