Open Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5, (closed on Mondays during school year), $15.50 adults, $14 kids. You can do all this and more in this highly engaging museum on two floors.It’s hands-on learning at its best. Discover how your Amazing Arteries supply blood cells to all parts of your body. Learn to fly a spaceship and create your own missions. Interact with and feed a bevy of colorful chirping birds in the Parakeet Garden. Starcade and the Pinball Museum are some of the best quirky Places to Propose in Virginia. The Center in the Square incorporates the Harrison Museum of African American Culture, the Science Museum of Western Virginia, and the highly interactive Starcade and Roanoke Pinball Museums.
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Where to Stay in Roanoke and Virginia’s Blue Ridge.EAT/DRINK: 1882 Lobby Bar and Pine Room at Hotel Roanoke.Best Places to Eat in Roanoke VA and Virginia’s Blue Ridge.DISTILLERY: Twin Creeks Distillery, Rocky Mount (25 miles from Roanoke).VISIT: Black Dog Salvage, Grandin Village.BIKE/RENT: Roanoke Mountain Adventures on Roanoke Valley Greenway.GO: Roanoke Star (One of the Top Things to Do in Roanoke VA).VISIT: Virginia Museum of Transportation.VISIT: City Market and Outdoor Farmer’s Market Plaza.Winston Link Museum, Western VA Historical Society, Raymond Lowey Gallery, and Virginia’s Blue Ridge Visitor’s Center Harrison Museum of African American Culture.Planning a longer trip to explore the Blue Ridge Mountains? Check out all the top things to do in Blue Ridge GA! Have a few more days? Discover Lynchburg VA, just a bit over an hour away.
Wait, there’s more! You can also explore some small towns with outsized charm right nearby. Your visit to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Region should definitely include a couple of days in Roanoke.
Once considered the “Moonshine Capital of the World,” (more illegal hooch was distilled here during prohibition than in any other area of the USA), and having earned its fame as a railroad and coal town, Roanoke VA is now known for healthier pastimes: mountain biking and hoofing it on hiking trails.īut with a re-emerging downtown, the largest lit star in the world, great new (and old) restaurants, an historic hotel, and a newly opened Bank-repurposed boutique hotel, Roanoke is a burgeoning hot-spot. WHY GO: The Getaway Mavens let you in on the best things to do in Roanoke VA, a major city in Virginia’s Blue Ridge (VBR) Mountain region.
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