November is the perfect time to visit Virginia’s river towns. Why? For one, it’s Virginia Oyster Month, with oyster-centric commemorations happening up and down the shorelines of the “Oyster Capital of the East Coast”. Read more...

Cover photo by Susan Turnier, courtesy of Ingleside Vineyards October is Virginia Wine Month, a perfect excuse to embark on a Virginia ...

Eager to travel and need a reason why? This is the final weekend of Virginia Craft Beer Month. If you love beer, particularly craft beer,...

Days 1 and 2: Washington, D.C., to Reedville and Tangier Island, Virginia (121 miles)Roughly halfway to Reedville from D.C., break for lunch at Colonial Beach, a pleasant small town with a 2 1/2-mile-long sandy beach on the Potomac (it’s somewhere between 90 minutes and two hours south of the city, depending on traffic).

Virginia is blessed with an abundance of beaches. However, there are some that are always more crowded than others. Virginia Beach, for example, offers beautiful shorelines yet you likely won’t be alone there.

Town of Colonial Beach, Virginia, has partnered with Virginia Tourism Corporation to inspire roadtrip travel throughout Virginia this summer and fall. Throughout the campaign, the Town’s official travel and tourism agency.

At the top of the list is one of the oldest beaches but still uncrowded beaches in the nation. It’s just 90 minutes or so from Washington, DC or Richmond, VA, and located on the Chesapeake Bay in the heart of Colonial Beach, Virginia sharing the name with the beach itself.

As part of their Campground Review Series, Get Gone with Us reviewed Harbor View Campground on its YouTube channel.

In 2016, the small, riverside beach hamlet Town of Colonial Beach, Virginia (CBVA), located on Virginia’s Norther Neck peninsula, was set...

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Richmond Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2019 edition of RVA Traveler is on newsstands now–and guess who is featured?!

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Reader’s Digest has named the Town of Colonial Beach, Virginia, the Nicest Place in Virginia, making the Potomac River town a finalist in the publication’s Nicest Places in America 2019. Reader’s Digest chose Colonial Beach after receiving nominations from two area residents.

There’s still plenty of time to make a quick getaway before the summer ends. Here are some day trip options for Northern Virginia residents.

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Voted USA Today’s No. 1 beach in Virginia in 2018, Colonial Beach is another ideal DMV antidote to the summer heat. This beach is an hour and 52 minutes away and has the second-longest accessible shore in Virginia, not to mention you can visit the birthplace of George Washington and James Madison and watch bald eagles nest.

While the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the pyramids in Egypt are classic choices for travel photographs, there are countless lesser known destinations that are equally if not more compelling, and alternative ways to approach photographing those usual suspects.