For more information, please contact Cheryl Morales | Marketing Manager Newport News Tourism 757.926.1428 | [email protected] newport-news.org SAMPLE ITINERARIES A “Taste” of Newport News Tour Like a Local and the Historical Triangle DAY 1 DAY 1 • Begin the day at Jamestown Settlement, the home of • Begin at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown Ships, America’s first permanent English colony, founded in 1607 that chronicles the entire Revolutionary period • Have lunch at the Jamestown Settlement Café • Have lunch in Hilton Village, a planned English village-style • Enjoy the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown neighborhood built between 1918 and 1921 Dorothy • Experience the daily life of a soldier at the Continental • Photo stop at The , the very first tugboat built History Army Encampment by Newport News Shipbuilding in 1891. • Dinner • Visit the Victory Arch followed by a visit to the tasting room AND at Ironclad Distillery THE DAY 2 • Enjoy a catered dinner at Tradition Brewing Company Great • Visit the Virginia Living Museum, experiencing native animal exhibits depicting Virginia’s natural heritage from DAY 2 the mountains to the sea • Explore Lee Hall Mansion, one of the last remaining • Lunch at the Wild Side Café antebellum homes on the Virginia Peninsula Outdoors • Lunch at Fairways BBQ and Grill at Deer Run Golf Course • Explore The Mariners’ Museum and Park, one of the largest maritime museums in the country • Visit Endview Plantation, where all three wars fought on • Dinner at one of the restaurants in City Center American soil have left traces, and enjoy dessert • Wander the streets of Colonial Williamsburg and shops of a DAY 3 time gone by • Explore Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum, the • Dinner at Schlesinger’s Chop House in the Port Warwick largest stone fort in the United States, designed to protect neighborhood of Newport News Hampton Roads (our rivers) from enemy attack WHERE WE ARE Washington, D.C. • Enjoy lunch at The Grey Goose in Hampton DAY 3 • Discover the Hampton History Museum. From the first • Explore the Jamestown Settlement, the home of America’s Newport News is located in southeastern Virginia, first permanent English colony, founded in 1607 along I-64 between Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, landing at Point Comfort to the ladies of Hidden Figures • Enjoy lunch at the Jamestown Settlement Café and is part of the Coastal Virginia region. The city sits and NASA, there’s decades of information here along the scenic Hampton Roads Harbor, one of the Coastal VA • Take a spin on the Hampton Carousel, first installed in 1920 • Discover Historic Jamestown, and enjoy a snack at the Dale House Café world’s largest natural harbors. Its waterside location We are: • Dinner in Newport News ties into its economy, as it is home to Newport News - 20 minutes from Williamsburg • Dinner at NEST Kitchen & Taphouse - 45 minutes from the Virginia Beach Oceanfront Shipbuilding—the largest industrial employer in the - 1 hour from Richmond state of Virginia. - 3 hours from Washington D.C. Newport News has more than 30 parks and historic Richmond sites. Our world-renowned museums celebrate nature, the sea, and our nation’s military heritage. We’re Williamsburg about an hour from Richmond and Virginia Beach and EVENTS approximately 20 minutes from Williamsburg, Busch Newport News Gardens, and Norfolk. With 4,000 hotel rooms, we can March – Battle of Hampton Roads at easily accommodate any size group. Norfolk Virginia Beach The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News; Newport News One City Marathon – at Newport News Park; at Scope Arena October Fall Festival of Folklife April – Virginia International Tattoo at City Center in Newport News in Norfolk Oyster Roast – at the Virginia Living Museum at Lee Hall November Oyster Roast June – Summer Celebration Wine Festival in Newport News Mansion in Newport News December – Celebration in Lights at Newport News Park August – World Arts Celebration at City Center in (Thanksgiving Day to New Year’s Day) OVER 30 PARKS • HISTORIC HOMES • SHOPPING • MUSEUMS • SIP & SAVOR Newport News 757.926.1428 | newport-news.org ATTRACTIONS CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH MUSEUMS ON SELECTION TO ABA’S PERFORMING ARTS Sail, Swim and Soar at the Virginia Living Museum and The Mariners’ Museum and Park • New options – For all MORNING AFTERNOON Tour the Wild Begin your White Sails Over day at the Virginia Living Blue Water Begin Museum experiencing your afternoon at native animal exhibits The Mariners’ Museum depicting Virginia’s and Park with a tour Downing-Gross Ferguson Center for the Arts Peninsula Community Theatre natural heritage from guide who will share Cultural Arts Center – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors the mountains to the sea. nautical tales and For more than a decade, Located in Historic Hilton Village, Virginia’s living resources interpret artifacts that This former school was restored Christopher Newport University’s the Peninsula Community Theatre encourage understanding of our natural world. celebrate the spirit of the ocean. 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