Take a trip into the past by visiting the Winmill Carriage Collection at Morven Park. You will see a wide variety of antique vehicles used between the mid 1800’s and the early 1900’s. See how suburbanites commuted to the city in Dennett and Stanhope Gigs. These vehicles were donated by the late Voila Townsend Winmill [...]

Named after owner Charles Mercer’s Scottish ancestral home Aldie Castle, Aldie Mill survives as one of the best outfitted early mills in Virginia. The mill was built in 1807 by Mercer’s partner William Cooke. The Virginia Outdoors Foundation acquired landmark in 1981 for restoration as an operational example of an early 19th-century wheat and corn [...]

One of Virginia’s most vibrant and attractive communities, Leesburg was founded in 1758. Originally called George Town after the [...]

Constructed in 1886, Mountain Gap School was Loudoun County’s last operational one-room school when it closed in 1953. It survives as the sole remnant of the small village of Mountain Gap, and was originally painted white.
Location
south of Leesburg off Rt. 15
Leesburg, VA
south of Leesburg off Rt. 15

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall. The museum provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of [...]

Dodona Manor is the former home of General George C. Marshall, one of the most significant and influential individuals of the 20th century. Dodona Manor has been restored to document how the Secretary of State, head of the American Red Cross, author of the Marshall Plan, and receiver of the Nobel Prize lived.
George C. Marshall [...]

Beaverdam Creek Reservoir is a beautiful lake teaming with wildlife, surrounded by hardwood trees, and home to residents such as the bald eagle. This refuge was mostly wetland, open fields, woods, and a few creeks before 1990. In that year, an earthen dam was constructed through Beaverdam Swamp. Multi-use trails loop around the lake for [...]

357 acres in Eastern Loudoun County are devoted to Claude Moore Park, one of the last remaining green spaces in the Sterling Suburbia. A half a mile from Route 7, the park boasts diverse habitats such as meadows, forests, and wetlands. The last known undeveloped section of Vestal’s Gap Road cuts through the park, passing [...]

The grounds of Morven Park include over 1,000 acres of lawns, fields, and wooded areas, along with the boxwood gardens. Much of the property has been placed in conservation easements in order to preserve the open space for future generations. Indeed, Morven Park has been called an “oasis” in the midst of Northern Virginia’s rapid [...]

The Appalachian Trail winds through 14 eastern states from Maine to Georgia on it’s 2,175-mile long journey. Conceived in 1921 and completed in 1937, the footpath traverses the scenic, wild, pastoral, wooded, and culturally significant lands of the Appalachian Mountains, comprising over 75 different federal and state forests and park lands.
Activities: Hiking, Camping, Bird Watching

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