Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the U.S.
Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. The city is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in southeastern Virginia. It is the sixth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, ninth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 43rd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 459,470 at the 2020 census. Virginia Beach is a principal city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which has more than 1.8 million inhabitants and is the 37th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S.
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Worth seeing in and around Virginia Beach
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01First Landing State Park
First Landing State Park offers recreational opportunities at Cape Henry in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. As the first planned state park of Virginia, First Landing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Seashore State Park Historic District.
7.1 km · state park in Virginia, USA · Wikipedia - 02Cavalier Hotel
The Cavalier Hotel is a historic hotel building in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The seven-story building was designed by Neff and Thompson with a Y-shaped floor plan and was completed in 1927.
2.2 km · historic hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A. · Wikipedia - 03Bay Island
Bay Island is a two mile long island situated in the North Great Neck area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The island is bordered by Long Creek to the north and Broad Bay to the south, both offshoots of the Lynnhaven River, and is connected to the mainland by the West Great Neck Bridge on the western side of the island.
9.1 km · island in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 04Virginia Aquarium
The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, formerly known as the Virginia Marine Science Museum, is an aquarium and marine science museum located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just south of Rudee Inlet. The exhibits at the museum are contained in over 800,000 US gallons of fresh and saltwater displays.
3.3 km · aquarium in Virginia, USA · Wikipedia - 05Alanton
Alanton is an older, upscale, residential neighborhood in the northern part of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The community was named for Alan McCullough, a prominent Virginia architect, but developed by his father.
5.4 km · human settlement in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America · Wikipedia - 06de Witt Cottage
de Witt Cottage, also known as Holland Cottage and Wittenzand, is a historic home located at Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story, L-shaped oceanfront brick cottage surrounded on three sides by a one-story porch.
1.2 km · historic house in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 07Aviation Heritage Park
Aviation Historical Park is an outdoor aviation museum just inside the main gate of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is open for visitors on a tour of the base, which is open to military and DOD employees.
6.1 km · Aviation museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia · Wikipedia - 08Camp Pendleton
Camp Pendleton is a 325-acre state military reservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia, named after Confederate Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, who served as Robert E. Lee's chief of artillery during the American Civil War. It lies on the Atlantic coast slightly east of Naval Air Station Oceana.
3.9 km · state military reservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 09Francis Land House
The Francis Land House, or Rose Hall, is a historic brick house in located within the Rose Hall District near Princess Anne Plaza in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was the plantation home of the prominent Land family, a founding family of Princess Anne County, Virginia.
9.1 km · historic house in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 10Lynnhaven Mall
Lynnhaven Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.. It opened in August 1981 and has a gross leasable area of 1,170,000 square feet, making it the largest mall in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area and one of the largest malls on the East Coast.
9.1 km · Super-regional mall in Virginia Beach, VA, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Virginia Beach
- Airports
- Norfolk (ORF), 20 km · Richmond (RIC), 139 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 241 km
- Stations
- Naval Air Station Oceana, 5.9 km
- Richmond → Virginia Beach153 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · $14–19
- Washington → Virginia Beach245 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · $27–37
- Baltimore → Virginia Beach277 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · $180–270
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No local-transport research exists yet for Virginia Beach
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Virginia Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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