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Virginia Tech Report: Va. State Parks Stimulated $250M in Visitor Spending in 2018

Virginia State Parks helped stimulate more than $249.1 million in visitor spending in 2018, according to a new economic impact report compiled by the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business. …

Ahoy, Volunteers! Lend a Hand on the Northbank Trail Project

Work on the new Northbank connector trail is moving right along with another great turnout at the work day last Saturday. I went out the previous week to the new trail …

Gift Protects 3 Appomattox River Islands

Check out this cool news from our friends at the Capital Region Land Conservancy: Even for a land trust, it isn’t every day someone offers you a gift of an …

New Northbank Trail Section Takes Shape

There was a record turnout last Saturday for the first volunteer work day on the North Bank connector trail. Tons of progress was made, as the pictures I’ve included show. …

Shrinkage City: Shiver in the River Set for Feb. 23

Considering the temperature outside, this seems a particularly apt time to mention that Keep Virginia Beautiful will be conducting its 5th annual James River polar plunge — Shiver in the …