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Blue Ridge & Southwest
Rail heritage, mountain-town art and university discoveries offer different ways to begin.
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Find your place
Blue Ridge & Southwest, a little closer.
Rail heritage, mountain-town art and university discoveries offer different ways to begin. Leave time for the actual journeys between these southwestern bases.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
No matching places in this collection. Try another town or show all places.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Blue Ridge & Southwest. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Virginia photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Roanoke City (Virginia) from Mill Mountain Star at Dusk.jpg — Joe Ravi. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- BarterTheatreVA.jpg — RebelAt ( talk ) ( Uploads ). Public domain. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Blacksburg, Virginia.jpg — Smash the Iron Cage. CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County and independent-city outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Virginia FIPS 51, all 95 counties and 38 independent cities. Simplified for display. Town markers show approximate centers, not attraction entrances or driving routes. These six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings, not Virginia’s official tourism regions. Featured places are starting points, not an exhaustive inventory.