Located midway between New York and Florida, Virginia is the gateway to the South. Western Virginia is mountainous, covered by the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains with the great Shenandoah Valley falling between the ranges. The central piedmont region, with its rolling hills, flattens out into the sandy coastal plain toward the Atlantic Ocean.

In the west you'll find the Valley Area and the Mountain Area: the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park,theLuray Caverns, the Natural Bridge, Shenandoah National Park, Shenandoah Valley, the Skyline Drive and small cities full of character, history and an abundance of things to do.

In the Central and Northern areas you'll get to Charlottesville and Monticello, Danville, Kings Dominion, Petersburg, Richmond and can visit Arlington and Arlington National Cemetery, Fredericksburg and Fredericksburg National Battlefield Parks, and Mount Vernon, among other places. Both areas are also full of Civil War history.

And in the Tidewater or Coastal Area you'll find Busch Gardens, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Virginia Beach, and Chincoteague/Assateague on the Eastern Shore.

Explore Virginia - there's more here than you ever knew!.