Runnymede Park

Claude Moore Colonial Farm - Beautiful, relaxing, fascinating and historic!

Any of the parks in the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.

Fort Hunt Park

Hemlock Overlook Regional Park

Claude Moore Colonial Farm has it all!

Super place, super people.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm - fun family activities, wonderful smells and tastes on Market Fair days, relax into yesteryear! Great place for children and young people to volunteer!!

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is so calming. The authentic colonial farm is surrounded by beautiful woods. Interesting animals and seasonal activities. Their Colonial Market Fairs are fantastic--educational but great fun for adults and kids. The Farm is also a great place to volunteer for both kids and adults.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a great way to enjoy nature by walking the shady paths, and to see Nature at work supporting the lives of the reanactors of 1771.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm! The Market Fairs are such fun for families with young children. The next one is July 21 and 22!

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a wonderful place! What better place to get close to nature than seeing how people lived so simply in 1771, so connected to the elements and to the natural surroundings of the area.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is one of our family's favorite places. There, you are immersed in a natural environment where children can touch, explore, imagine, and learn about Virginia's agricultural past. We love the way it reminds us to respect, care for, and live harmoniously with nature.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is soooo beautiful. Best of all - you learn so much about our country's beginnings -- so much hard work for a poor tennant farm family -- and all of this in such a magical, step back in time, natural environment. It is so beautiful --- it takes your breath away.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a fantastic place! Even though my family moved four years ago and it is now a two or three day drive to Virginia, I still volunteer most summers at the Market Fairs. The woods surrounding Claude Moore are beautiful- the perfect place to commune with nature.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm. As a teenager who barely sees the sun, a lot of the time that I actually do spend outside is spent volunteering at the farm, working the earth with an 18th-century hoe until I get blisters and enjoying the sunlight and the soft breezes that somehow manage to cool me off through several layers of linen. The adult visitors and children that converse with as a "farm child" seem equally entranced by the simplistic beauty of the farm. For me there is no better escape from the noise of everyday life.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm--awesome!

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is amazing. The scenery is beautiful and you are away from all your electronics so it is easier to "Commune with nature"

We love Claude Moore Colonial Farm! It is so peaceful and a great place to escape to and enjoy nature.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is fabulous. You can enjoy nature and learn about the history of the United States in a scenic and peaceful place.

I agree! I love Claude Moore Colonial Farm! A great combo of really peaceful natural setting with a little history tossed in.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm--awesome! I strongly support this wonderful, peaceful place, in the middle of too much people population. Faith, the long horned cow, is named after my mother, also born on a farm still in the family. Market Faires have yummy colonial like food and beverages. A loaf of bread, cheese, and ale sustain life while shopping at the commodity stalls, and watching the informative demonstrations of woodworking, iron working, and music making. The Children's Corner has plenty of activities to keep my young grand children occupied. More information is available at their web site: http://1771.org/.

Burke Lake Park!

Claude Moore Colonial Farm is wonderful! Keeping NOVA teens giving back and connected to nature--can't beat that!

Guess I need to check out Claude Moore Colonial Farm, but we love Huntley Meadows locally with its wetlands, lookouts and boardwalk style paths throughout. Beaver dams, herons, red-winged blackbirds, cattails and large turtles... the quiet hum of nature is serene.

Woodlawn Stables! Which is currently threatened by a poorly conceived widening proposal! See Save Woodlawn Stables for how you can help by July 9th!

Paradise Springs Winery

Huntley Meadows Park. I have seen the most exciting things there: A stampede of at least 12 deer no more than 20 feet in front of me across the path I was walking on with my son; snakes intertwined and mating; 5-6 turtles sunning themselves on a dead branch in the afternoon; a beaver just hanging out in the shade and lots and lots of frogs.

Hunters Woods in Hunters Woods!

The GW Parkway trails are ideal for this. With the Potomac to the east, historic Mount Vernon to the south and the majesty that is nature at its best all around, even the cars whizzing by can't help but make you feel serene and relaxed.

Meadowlark Gardens is a wonderful spot to enjoy nature. There's nothing like sitting at the edge of a quiet pond in a comfy Adirondack chair. It's a great place to see many types of birds as well as being a fabulous garden.

Love Huntley Meadows. So grateful that it is nearby. I have seen 3 turkeys run across the path, a fox, and deer. Oh, yes, and snakes....My dog loves it.

Definatley my backyard. I adore nature and just sitting in my backyard I am visited by deer, foxes, raccoons, possums, groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels, turtles, hawks, humming birds, frogs, flying squirrels and we have one very special all black squirrel. So I am very content just walking out my back door.