Williamsburg KOA

Museums

If your interest is in touring museums, you can spend a day or two touring one or all of the following: The Children’s Museum of Virginia, The Chrysler Museum, Museum of the Confederacy, Fort Eustis Transportation Museum, Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Mattaponi Indian Museum, Hermitage Foundation Museum, Hampton University Museum, Virginia Living Museum, Mariners Museum, Virginia Air and Space Museum, Nauticus National Maritime Museum, Mary Bell Washington Museum, Virginia Marine Science Museum, Hunter House Victorian Museum, Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, U.S. Quartermaster Museum, Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center, and War Memorial Museum of Virginia.

Plantations

Enjoy the history by touring one or more of the following plantations: Berkeley Plantation (site of the first official Thanksgiving in 1619), Carters Grove (tour the Georgia mansion, “The most beautiful house in America”), Evelynton Plantation (originally part of Westover Plantation), Northbend Plantation (home of Sarah Harrison, William Henry Harrison’s sister), Sherwood Forest (home of the 10th United States President, John Tyler), Shirley Plantation (beautiful 18th Century mansion with original paintings, furniture and silver on display), Tuckahoe Plantation (the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson).

Forts/Battlefields

Take a stroll through history by visiting the forts/battlefields in our area: Fort Monroe (largest stone fort ever built in the United States), Fort Norfolk (supplied ammunition for the Confederate iron clad in the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac), Petersburg National Battlefield, Richmond National Battlefield and Yorktown Battlefield.

Other points of interest

For continued enjoyment you can explore other sites and activities like N.A.S.A. (see a close up of NASA’s wind tunnel and the gigantic scaffolding used to drop space capsules to simulate lunar landings), Norfolk Waterside (waterfront festivals, harbor cruises and maritime history), U.S. Naval Base Tours (world’s largest naval base), Wharton’s Wharf Harbor Tours, Jamestown Island Boating Excursion, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Jamestown Ferry, Bacons Castle (home includes furnishings based on 1711 and 1755 inventories made by the residents during those years), York River State Park, Virginia Beach Ocean Front (Virginia’s premier boardwalk area), Deep Sea Fishing, Virginia Beach Aquarium (offering a six story 3-D Imax theater and a marine life petting area), Virginia Beach Pavilion, Christian Broadcasting Network (one of the nation's most modern television studios), Verizon Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Norfolk Scope, Cape Henry Light House (the oldest government-built lighthouse in America), Ocean Breeze Festival Park, Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Norfolk Zoo, Hampton Waterfront, The Center for the Arts, Fine Arts Gallery, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, The Feldman Chamber Music Society (five chamber music ensembles held each year), First Landing Cross, George Washington’s Birthplace National Monument, Air Power Park (one of the largest civilian-owned collections of aircraft and missiles in the United States), Carrie B. Harbor Tours (narrated tour of the Norfolk-Portsmouth Harbor), Flowerdew Hundred (one of the earliest English settlements in the New World) and Peninsula Fine Arts Center (affiliate of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).