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Occoneechee State Park is a state park near Clarksville, Virginia, located along Buggs Island Lake.Occoneechee State Park is 2,698 acres in size. Its name reflects the Occaneechi Indians, who lived on (and traded from) an island in the Roanoke River near its confluence with the Dan River, which was flooded by the creation of the Kerr Lake reservoir in 1952.
Smith Mountain Lake State Park: Huddleston: 1,248 acres (5.05 km 2) 1967 Open Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park: Big Stone Gap: 1.5 acres (0.0061 km 2) 1943 Open Staunton River State Park: Scottsburg: 2,336 acres (9.45 km 2) 1939 Open Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Randolph: 300 acres (1.2 km 2) 1955 Open Sweet Run State Park
Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
Clinch River State Park is a river-based state park in Tazewell, Russell, Wise, and Scott counties in Southwest Virginia. It was dedicated by Gov. Ralph Northam on 16 June 2021 as the 41st park in the Virginia State Park system. The park preserves some of the most scenic and ecologically diverse parts of the Clinch River.
Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park, known generally as Shenandoah River State Park, is a state park near the town of Bentonville, Virginia, United States. The park was established in 1994, and covers 1,619 acres (6.55 km 2) along the South Fork Shenandoah River. [1] It was named for Virginia Delegate Andy Guest, long a ...
Today, the park is known for its fishing opportunities. The park was one of four recreational areas developed by the Virginia Division of Forestry (now the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation) working in conjunction with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Depression. The central water feature at Holliday Lake is the ...
Bear Creek Lake State Park is a 326-acre (132 ha) state park located in Cumberland, Virginia, United States. It is a recreational and camping facility that surrounds an artificial 40-acre (16 ha) lake situated in the 16,000-acre (6,500 ha) Cumberland State Forest. As of 2013, the yearly visitation was 78,288. [6]
The parks merged in 1976 and became Twin Lakes State Park in 1986. In 1995, Virginia erected a marker to acknowledge his lawsuit's contribution to desegregating the park. [6] The marker reads: Prince Edward State Park for Negroes was established in 1950 one mile west on the site of the former Prince Edward Lake Recreation Area for Negroes.