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- Check out the website curating events around the New River Valley, called Next Three Days.
- Enjoy the Friday Night Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store
Gathering every Friday Night for at least 35 years, the small community of Floyd welcomes locals and tourists alike to celebrate community and old time music.
- Enjoy the Christiansburg Recreation Center or Aquatic Center
The Aquatic Center is the home of the VA Tech Swim & Dive Teams, as well as a fabulous family swim area.
- Do a self-driving tour of the VA Tech Campus (visual and audio tour at link)
The VA Tech Campus is quite impressive. If you follow the map linked above, the tour ends at the April 16 Memorial. We encourage all to spend a few moments there, commemorating the lives lost in our community on April 16, 2007.
- Hike The Buffalo for awesome elevation views, or The Cascades for incredible waterfalls!
- Walk, bike, or skate the Huckleberry Trail
- Hit the links at Auburn Hills Golf Club, Blacksburg Municipal, or Pete Dye River Course
- Find all of the Hokie Bird Statues
- Eat a massive VA slice at Benny Marzano’s
- Check out the unique VA Tech Transportation Institute, home of VA’s Smart Road!
- Ride the Buffalo Mountain Ziplines
- Drive the Blue Ridge Parkway
Grab a fresh sandwich & picnic supplies at Bread Basket on your way
- Tour Mabry Mill
- Fly fish the New River here or here, or tube down the river for a lazy afternoon!
- Ride a trail on horseback at Winterfrost Farm
- Go boating or fishing on Claytor Lake
- Visit Mountain Lake
- Go spelunking at Dixie Caverns
- Shop the Antiques in historic Christiansburg or historic Cambria
- Visit the famous Black Dog Salvage (home of reality show, “Salvage Dawgs”)
- Tour the Virginia Museum of Transportation
- Have a Cheesy Western at the historic Texas Tavern in downtown Roanoke
- Wave to your friends on the live webcam at the world’s largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, constructed in 1949 at the top of Mill Mountain in Roanoke.
- Peruse the Christiansburg Farmer’s Market, Blacksburg Farmer’s Market or Radford Farmer’s Market
