Hi! I just moved to Virginia. Do you have any suggestions for sightseeing?
I hear that they Blue Ridge Mountains and Chesapeake Bay are both worth seeing - they are both in Virginia right?
Yes, they are! Great ideas. Have you ever visited the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Blue Ridge Tunnel
The Blue Ridge Tunnel (also known as the Crozet Tunnel) is a historic railroad tunnel built during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was the westernmost and longest of four tunnels engineered by Claudius Crozet to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains at Rockfish Gap in central Virginia. At in length, the tunnel was the longest tunnel in the United States at the time of its completion in 1858. The tunnel was used by the Virginia Central Railroad from its opening to 1868, when
becoming the public roadway actually closest to the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean terminating near the traditional resort strip at Virginia Beach.
Route description West Virginia to Lexington.
U.S. Route 60 enters the state as part of I-64 near the top of the Eastern Continental Divide in the Appalachian Mountains and crosses the portions of the Great Valley, passing the city of Covington, and town of Clifton Forge and the city of Lexington.
Route description Blue Ridge Mountains to Richmond.
At Lexington, the newer Interstate route swings