Virginia Announces Ten Outdoor Adventures to Feed Your Life Force

Virginia's different kayak trips, afar of hiking trails and statewide wildlife aisle crop passions for alfresco adventitious to new heights

Richmond, Va. -- The Virginia Tourism Corporation today launched Ten Getaways to Feed Your Life Force for adrenaline junkies and ecothusiasts analytic to advance their affection for alfresco adventitious to new heights. The break ideas, alternating with video of ecothusiast Dave Burden, an alfresco clothier on Virginia's Eastern Shore, are featured on www.Virginia.org.

Dave Burden of Virginia's Eastern Shore

Grand Canyon of the South. Get the adrenaline pumping at Breaks Interstate Parks - the "Grand Canyon of the South." Spanning the Virginia/Kentucky apprenticed in Southwest Virginia, "The Breaks" is one of two artery parks in the nation. Class IV-VI avalanche on the Russell Fork River run through the park, authoritative for some of the best whitewater rafting on the East Coast. The 4,500-acre esplanade appearance a 12-acre lake, hiking trails, horseback riding, abundance biking, fishing, camping, cabins and bags of alfresco adventure.

Explore the adorableness of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains from Abingdon to Damascus alternating the Virginia Creeper Trail, one of America's admired abuse trails. Ride or backpack at your own clip alternating a level, 15-mile trail, belted by fields and pastures. Or advance your affection alternating a added challenging, 18-mile trek, aggressive by amazing abundance scenery.

Extreme sports for families abound in Shenandoah National Park. Hike any of the 500 afar of trails, analyze on horseback or bike alternating the acclaimed Skyline Drive. Mountain angle and wildlife watching, from white-tailed deer, atramentous bear, fox, river otter and minks accomplish the esplanade magical. Stay brief at Skyland Resort, Big Meadows Lodge or cabins at Lewis Mountain

Virginia Beach is an adrenaline junkie's dream. Bike, casting or airing the 3-mile ocean boardwalk to absorb in the sun and sea air. Challenge your abilities with the new chic of Stand-Up Surfing in Sandbridge. Kayak with dolphins in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Or arise with the gulls on a parasailing cruise over the Atlantic Ocean.

Reconnect with attributes alternating the Virginia Birding & Wildlife Trail, area arctic gannets, red-tailed hawks, pelicans, albino egrets and baldheaded eagles fly. Virginia is the aboriginal accompaniment with a statewide birding and wildlife aisle arrangement area attributes lovers will acquisition 400 breed of bird, 250 breed of angle and 150 breed of acreage and abyssal animals.

For travelers absorbed on fishing, bolt your affection in Virginia. Hire a adviser for an acclaimed fly fishing cruise in Virginia's abundance streams. Virginia's admirable lakes and rivers in the piedmont arena are havens for largemouth bass and added panfish. Along the coastline, allotment a baiter and arch out for a adventitious at big stripers, tuna, cobia and drum. Several restaurants in Virginia Beach will even baker your bolt for you.

Virginia State Parks are consistently voted as America's best and adroitness about every bend of the Commonwealth. Virginia's 34 parks accept bags of camping sites, hundreds of cabins and added than 500 afar of trails. Special ranger-led programs action fun, hands-on acquirements opportunities for adults and kids - from astrochemistry to an "owl prowl." Virginia State Parks are pet-friendly, so families can accompany their four-legged attributes lovers too.

Bug out in Southern Virginia at the John H. Kerr Reservoir/Buggs Island Lake. The basin is Virginia's largest, boasting 800 afar of bank to allow adventurers' passions for water-skiing, fishing, sailing and swimming. Dock your baiter at the basin or adore the camping sites.

Virginia's underground holds abundant adventures too, abnormally in world-renowned caverns. Hike with guides through these anesthetic destinations, begin mostly in the Shenandoah Valley and boring in awe at the world's alone Stalacpipe Organ at Luray Caverns or the breath-taking Rainbow Lake at Shenandoah Caverns.

Don't be bamboozled by the name, the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail in Chesapeake is an amazing alfresco destination. The multi-purpose aisle runs 8.5 afar alternating the Dismal Swamp Canal and absolute for horse owners, bicyclists, walkers, joggers, and boaters. It's a accustomed and actual amphitheater for austere and accidental alfresco amusement enthusiasts.

For travelers accessible to augment their activity force, analysis out www.Virginia.org for added alfresco adventitious passions and watch Dave Burden and his dog Chinook as they kayak the amnion of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Or alarm 1-800-VISITVA to appeal a chargeless Virginia is for Lovers - Live Passionately biking guide.