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May 2021. First Landing State Park (formerly Seashore State Park) offers recreational opportunities at Cape Henry in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. As the first planned state park of Virginia, First Landing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Seashore State Park Historic District. A portion of the park is listed as a National Natural Landmark as part of the Seashore Natural Area.
The state park is near the site of the first landing on April 26, 1607 of Christopher Newport and the Virginia Company colonists before establishing themselves at Jamestown.
To learn more about accommodations at Fairy Stone State Park, go to www.virginiastateparks.gov/fairy-stone
The Park's Trail Map does not show this little loop trail along the south bank of Swift Creek Lake upstream of the Fendley Station Trail Bridge. Here is a view of Swift Creek entering the Lake from the right.
Virginia State Park marketing team's vehicles are now wrapped with images showing the beauty at the parks. **Used in blog in July 2014 on www.virginiaoutdoors.com
Looking towards the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina from the Appalachian Trail. Grayson Highlands SP in Virginia.
Four adults practicing archery in a brown, grassy field surrounded by autumn colored trees, a clear blue sky, and with two archery targets in front of a white sheet backstop down field of them.
To learn more about accommodations at Fairy Stone State Park, go to www.virginiastateparks.gov/fairy-stone