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Willoughby Spit

Willoughby Spit is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States.

Willoughby Spit
Willoughby Spit · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District from United States
The place

Willoughby Spit is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States. It is bordered by water on three sides: the Chesapeake Bay to the north, the James River to the west, and Willoughby Bay to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Willoughby Spit

2 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.

  1. 01
    Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel

    The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel is a 3.5-mile-long Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 64 and US Route 60. It is a four-lane facility comprising bridges, trestles, artificial islands, and tunnels under the main shipping channels for Hampton Roads harbor in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States.

    3 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ocean View Amusement Park

    Ocean View Amusement Park was an amusement park at the end of Granby Street at Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, opened in 1905 and operated by Jack L. Greenspoon and Dudley Cooper. The amusement park and its wooden coaster, the Rocket, appeared in the 1977 movie Rollercoaster but closed on 4 September 1978.

    3.2 km · closed amusement park in Virginia, USA · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Willoughby Spit

Airports
Norfolk (ORF), 11 km · Richmond (RIC), 110 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 220 km
Stations
Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field, 3.7 km
  • Richmond → Willoughby Spit
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Washington → Willoughby Spit
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Dulles → Willoughby Spit
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  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Willoughby Spit

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 Willoughby Spit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get around$4.50 will get you an all-day pass which is usable on most buses, the ferry, and Tide Light Rail.
  • Get aroundHampton Roads Transit runs a passenger ferry from Portsmouth.
  • Get aroundThe ferry's crew does not carry cash, so be sure to bring the exact fare for each rider.
  • Get aroundThe fare is $2.00 one way, and $4.50 for an all-day pass which is usable on the Tide, the ferry and HRT buses.
  • Go nextVirginia Beach Take the ferry to Portsmouth Take a cruise from Norfolk to Bermuda or the Caribbean.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (Virginia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    491 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,007 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,347 km
  4. 04
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,352 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,355 km

If you know how people move in Willoughby Spit – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Willoughby Spit

Willoughby Spit is 30 km from Virginia Beach, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.