Day trip to Lynchburg
Antiques
Great MCM dealer with the highest quality pieces for serious collectors. Great fun to go and peek in the showroom!
Galaxie Modern
109 N Bridge StGreat MCM dealer with the highest quality pieces for serious collectors. Great fun to go and peek in the showroom!
Cute small antiques store with a good selection of reasonable priced 19th Century antiques. Richmonders will be pleasantly surprised!
6 locals recommend
Buzzards Roost
718 Commerce StCute small antiques store with a good selection of reasonable priced 19th Century antiques. Richmonders will be pleasantly surprised!
Sightseeing
A must-see for the literary traveler, poet Anne Spencer and her husband crafted a handmade magical home that everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance visited. The garden is always open, but you’ll need to schedule a tour in advance. This is an extraordinarily special place!
13 locals recommend
The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum
1313 Pierce StA must-see for the literary traveler, poet Anne Spencer and her husband crafted a handmade magical home that everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance visited. The garden is always open, but you’ll need to schedule a tour in advance. This is an extraordinarily special place!
Historic house tour of Lynchburg’s major home. Worth doing if you’re an old house freak.
58 locals recommend
Point of Honor
112 Cabell StHistoric house tour of Lynchburg’s major home. Worth doing if you’re an old house freak.
A small, interesting local museum in the heart of downtown Lynchburg.
24 locals recommend
Lynchburg Museum
901 Court StA small, interesting local museum in the heart of downtown Lynchburg.
Excellent children’s museum with a great multi-level rope-based playscape. Excellent rainy day location for the under-ten set. Set in an old warehouse by the James River in downtown Lynchburg, it’s also a great introduction to this very pretty city.
111 locals recommend
Amazement Square
27 9th StExcellent children’s museum with a great multi-level rope-based playscape. Excellent rainy day location for the under-ten set. Set in an old warehouse by the James River in downtown Lynchburg, it’s also a great introduction to this very pretty city.
Thomas Jefferson’s summer home, open as a museum. Very different from Monticello!
32 locals recommend
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson’s summer home, open as a museum. Very different from Monticello!
Performing arts
Lovely restored performing arts center with an eclectic mix of interesting shows. Check the website for performances. Classic movies with 5 cent popcorn Wednesday afternoons!
50 locals recommend
Academy Center of the Arts
600 Main StLovely restored performing arts center with an eclectic mix of interesting shows. Check the website for performances. Classic movies with 5 cent popcorn Wednesday afternoons!
Food scene
Indoor market with soul food and patisserie: good place for nosh while antiquing downtown.
100 locals recommend
Lynchburg Community Market
1219 Main StIndoor market with soul food and patisserie: good place for nosh while antiquing downtown.
Weirdly great steakhouse inside the Kirkland Hotel. Uniformly excellent food and service. Nice local beer list. It’s weird, but we go there when we need a white-table cloth experience that these kids will also enjoy. Across from the Lynchburg mall and next to the bowling alley, so it’s part of an excellent rainy day escape!
8 locals recommend
The Great Room
2900 Candlers Mountain RdWeirdly great steakhouse inside the Kirkland Hotel. Uniformly excellent food and service. Nice local beer list. It’s weird, but we go there when we need a white-table cloth experience that these kids will also enjoy. Across from the Lynchburg mall and next to the bowling alley, so it’s part of an excellent rainy day escape!
Wonderful 1940s era seafood restaurant. It’s totally updated the menu, but the old menus hang in every booth and are impossibly charming. Excellent Saturday brunch! Great food. Romantic!
34 locals recommend
The Dahlia Restaurant
2221 Bedford AveWonderful 1940s era seafood restaurant. It’s totally updated the menu, but the old menus hang in every booth and are impossibly charming. Excellent Saturday brunch! Great food. Romantic!
Mister Goodies
21556 Timberlake RdNeed soft serve?
This is the delicious homemade Mister Goodies—
Not the factory soft serve. I have no idea why the two ice-cream stores have the same name, but it’s very confusing, and they are very very different!
7 locals recommend
Mister Goodies Homemade Ice Cream
2367 Colby DriveThis is the delicious homemade Mister Goodies—
Not the factory soft serve. I have no idea why the two ice-cream stores have the same name, but it’s very confusing, and they are very very different!