Phone: 496-6000 Fax: 721-6141 Website: www.backbay.fws.gov RECREATION/ Hours are 8:00am-4:00pm, Monday- Friday; 9:00am-4:00pm, Saturday and Sunday. November 1st thru March 31st, CULTURE 8:00am-4:00pm, Monday-Friday; 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday. Department of Parks and Recreation Chesapeake City Park Chesapeake 500 Greenbrier Parkway Phone: 382-6411 Chesapeake, VA 23320 Fax: 382-8418 Phone: 382-6411 Fax: 382-8418 Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Friday. Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Norfolk Friday. Phone: 441-2400 Fax: 441-5423 City Park City Park Avenue Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Portsmouth, VA 23701 Friday. Phone: 465-2937 Fax: 382-8418 Portsmouth Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Phone: 393-8481 Fax: 393-8265 Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Website: www.ci.portsmouthva.us.gov Friday. Suffolk False Cape State Park Phone: 923-2360 4001 Sandpiper Road Website: www.suffolk.va.us/parks Virginia VA Phone: 426-7128 Virginia Beach Phone: 471-5884 First Landing State Park Fax: 471-2330 2500 Shore Drive Website: www.evreg.vbgov.com Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone: 412-2308 Hours are 8:00am-5:30pm, Monday- Fax: 412-2315 Friday. Website: www.dcr.virginia.gov City and State Parks (Southside) Mount Trashmore 300 Edwin Drive Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Virginia Beach, VA 4005 Sandpiper Road Phone: 473-5237 Virginia Beach, VA Fax: 473-5047 Phone: 721-2412 153 Website: www.vbgov.com Little Back River Road Hampton VA Hours are 7:00am-7:00pm, Monday- Phone: 727-8311 Friday. Grandview Nature Preserve Norfolk Botanical Gardens End of Beach Road 6700 Azalea Garden Road Hampton, VA Azalea Garden Rd. bet Norview Ave & Phone: 727-8311 Little Creek Rd Norfolk, VA Huntington Park/Newport News Park Phone: 441-5830 Mercury Blvd & Ft. Eustis Avenue Newport News, VA Administrative Office hours are 8:30am- Phone: 886-7911 5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Regular hours Fax: 928-6921 are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Office hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Sleepy Hole Park Monday thru Friday, Memorial Day thru 4100 Sleepy Hole Road Labor Day. Suffolk, VA 23435 Phone: 538-4100 Mid-County Park Fax: 934-2781 2793 Ironbound Road James City County, VA Hours are 7:00am-7:00pm, Monday- Phone: 229-1232 Friday. Mill Point Park Virginia Zoological Park Carousel Park 3500 Granby Street Downtown Hampton, VA Norfolk, VA Phone: 727-8311 Phone: 441-2706 Municipal Park Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Poquoson, VA Sunday. Closed Thanksgiving, Phone: 868-3580 Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Day. Cost-Adults $6.00, Seniors Sandy Bottom Nature Park $5.00, Children 2-11 $4.00, and children Off Big Bethel Road under 2 free. Hampton, VA Phone: 825-4657 City and State Parks (Peninsula) Waller Mill Park Williamsburg, VA Buckroe Beach Park Phone: (757) 259-3760 End of Pembroke Avenue Hampton, VA York River State Park Phone: 727-8311 Riverview Rd. Williamsburg, VA Gosnold’s Hope Park Phone: (757) 566-3036 154 Fax: (757) 566-4013 Offers a changing exhibit by African- American artists across Hampton Roads Yorktown Battlefields and an authentic African art exhibit. Route 238 and Colonial Parkway Host several special activities, book Yorktown, VA store and courtyard available for rent for Phone: (757) 898-3400 special occasions. Babes and Bears Toy Museum Department of Tourism 209 25th Street Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Hampton Phone: 491-4870 Phone: 896-4600 Features a collection of rare beautiful James City County and unusual dolls, dollhouses, toys and Phone: 220-4700 bears in this newly opened museum. Guided tours are both educational and Newport News entertaining, with over 1,000 antique to Phone: 926-3561 contemporary dolls and toys on display. Exhibits rotate regularly. Poquoson Phone: 868-3580 or 890-3500 Children’s Museum of Virginia 221 High Street Museums Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 393-8393 Adam Thoroughgood House 1636 Parish Road Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Virginia Beach, VA 23455 Saturday, 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday, Phone: 431-4000 closed Monday. Offers over 60 interactive exhibits, special activities, Mailing Address events and programs. Children under 14 Chrysler Museum must be accompanied by an adult at least 245 W. Olney Road 18 yrs old. Admission $6.00 for 2yrs and Norfolk, VA 23510 over. Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Chrysler Museum of Art, The Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. A 245 West Olney Road colonial house dating from 1680 has Norfolk, VA 23510 restored gardens, furnishings appropriate Phone: 664-6201 to period. Website: www.chrysler.org Email: [email protected] Art Atrium, The 629 High Street Hours are 10:00am-2:00pm, Tuesday for Portsmouth, VA 23704 tours thru Oct. 26, 10:00am-9:00pm, Phone: 436-5603 Wednesday, 10:00am-5:00pm, Thursday-Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday, and closed Monday. Admission: 155 $7.00-adults, $6.00-AAA, $5.00- Virginia. Exhibits continue with the 20th students, teachers, active military, century, including with today’s Navy. seniors 65 & over. Free 12 and under. The museum is located in Nauticus, the Wednesday voluntary contribution. National Maritime Center on the Norfolk, Virginia waterfront. Visitors D’ Art Center should follow road signs to Nauticus. 125 College Place The museum is free of charge and Norfolk, VA 23510 handicapped accessible. Public parking Phone: 625-4211 garages are nearby. Fax: 625-0670 Website: www.d-artcenter.org Hermitage Foundation Museum Email: [email protected] 7637 N. Shore Road Norfolk, VA 23505 Offers a complete spectrum of visual arts Phone: 423-2052 ranging from contemporary works to 423-2021 animation drawings of cartoons. Fax: 423-1604 Website: www.hermitage.org Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday, 325 W. Frances Street Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Williamsburg, VA 23187 Saturday. Closed Wednesday. 1:00pm- Phone: 229-1000 5:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $5.00 per Website: www.history.org person. Provides guided tours through the Tudor-style mansion and 13 acres of Offers regular exhibits on accessories beautifully landscaped grounds housing from the 18th century through the an elaborate collection of Oriental and present. Western art; lectures; classes in art to young people and adults; public Hampton Roads Naval Museum awareness and appreciation of the arts. One Waterside Drive, Suite 248 Norfolk, VA 23510-1607 Hunter House Victorian Museum Phone: 444-8971 240 W. Freemason Street 322-2985 Norfolk, VA 23510 Fax: 445-1867 Phone: 623-9814 Website: www.hunterhousemuseum.org Serves Hampton Roads. Introduces you to over two centuries of naval activity in Open to the general public Wednesday and around the great harbor of Hampton through Saturday, April through Roads, Virginia. Your tour begins with December. Offers special tours and the Battle off the Capes in 1781, a naval events through out the season. engagement which made possible America’s victory at Yorktown. An Lancaster Train and Toy Museum impressive collection of ship models and 5661 shoulder Hill Road retrieved underwater artifacts advance Suffolk, VA 23435 the story through the Civil War and the Phone: 484-4224 battle of the ironclads Monitor and 156 Hours are 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday- 100 Museum Drive Saturday. Agency has collection of toy (Intersection of J. Clyde Morris & trains and toys late 1800’s till today- Warwick Blvd) featuring 7 operating layouts of different Newport news, VA 23606-3759 gauges. Museum is located in a retail toy Phone: 596-2222 or 1-800-581-7245 and hobby shop, “Mike’s Trainland Inc.” Fax: 591-7320 An outdoor train runs daily in Lancaster Train Park, outside of main building. Open to the community daily from The Lancaster Museum is open to the 10:00am-5:00pm. Closed Thanksgiving public on a donation basis. There is a and Christmas. Administrative hours are voluntary donation at the door of the 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. museum-$1.00 for outside train ride. Admission: $8.00-adults, $6.00-6-17, Free-5yrs and under. Discounts for Lightship Museum active duty military, senior 65&over, London Blvd on the Portsmouth AAA members w/valid cards. Introduces Waterfront visitors to the lore of the sea. Specious Portsmouth, VA 13703 galleries, showplace paintings, figure Phone: 393-8741 heads, ship models, navigational Fax: 393-5244 instruments and ship’s furnishings. Website: Changing exhibits and special lecture www.cityofportsmouth.net/museums series-call for details. The Mariner’s Museum’s 550 acre park features The Hours are weekends after Labor Day Noland Trail and Lake Maury. The form 10:00am-5:00pm. Visitors can Noland Trail is five miles long and board an original vessel and see how the enables the visitor to walk all the way men of the Lightship Service lived around the main body of Lake Maury. during their months at sea. Lake Maury offers fishing, boat and canoe rental (call for reservations), a MacArthur Memorial Museum, The picnic area and nature walks. MacArthur Square Norfolk, VA 23510 Muscarelle Museum Phone: 441-2965 Jamestown Road at the college of Fax: 441-5389 William and Mary Website: www.macarthurmemorial.org Williamsburg, VA Phone: 221-2700 Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- 221-2708 (weekends) Saturday; 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday. Fax: 221-2711 Provides a museum and research center which presents historical exhibits and Free and open to the public. Hours are educational programs concerning the life closed Tuesday and Wednesday and and times of General Douglas major holidays, noon-5:00pm, Saturday MacArthur and all Americans who and Sunday, 10:00am-4:45pm, Thursday served in the armed forces during World and Friday.