Aberdeen Gardens
Historic Museum
The museum celebrates the history, heritage, and future of Aberdeen Gardens, a historic community built
Air Power Park
Learn about the vital role Hampton played in America's early space exploration and aircraft testing. Conduct your own self-guided tour in the park featuring jet planes,
American Theatre
Built in 1908, the restored vaudeville house is now a thriving performing arts center with year-round live shows such as cabaret, family fun, symphony, theater and dance.
Bass Pro Shops/Outdoor World
Museum quality wildlife dioramas, murals depicting outdoor scenes, waterfalls and a 19,000 gallon aquarium with native fish species.
Bluebird Gap Farm
Designed to resemble a working farm, this 60-acre site is home to domesticated and wild animals familiar to traditional Virginia farms. Enjoy a playground, picnic tables,
Boo Williams Sportsplex
A specially designed sports facility dedicated to amateur athletic competition, the Boo Williams Sportsplex is a 135,000-square-foot sports facility designed to host basketball, indoor field hockey, volleyball, dance, cheerleading and other indoor events.
Buckroe Beach
Enjoy the wide, clean beach and gentle surf of the Chesapeake Bay. Lifeguards on duty during the summer season. Playground, picnic shelters and watercraft available.
Casemate Museum
Within Fort Monroe is the Casemate Museum, which gives a history of the fort and features Jefferson Davis's prison cell, Robert E. Lee's living quarters, and a slew of old military uniforms and supplies.
Coliseum Central
You'll find everything from A to Z in Hampton's largest shopping area, which includes the exciting Peninsula Town Center, a mixed-use development that combines living with dining, shopping, services and special events. Dining, apparel, electronics, sporting goods, big box stores, specialty shops, medical and dental offices, drycleaners, hair and nail services, grocery stores—you name it and you can shop for it in Coliseum Central.
Downtown Hampton
Fort Monroe
The largest stone fort ever built
in the U.S. Within the historic
fort's stone walls, the Casemate
Museum chronicles the history
of the fort and the Coast Artillery
Corps. During the Civil War, Fort
Monroe was a Union-held bastion
and helped shelter thousands of
slave refugees.
Visit the cell where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned. Several other historic landmarks located within the fort's moat-encircled area welcome visitors.
Fort Wool
This island fortress played vital roles in the Civil War and both World Wars. Inaccessible by car, Fort Wool can be experienced during the Miss Hampton II tour or viewed from Fort Monroe.
Hampton Coliseum
One of the most recognizable architectural jewels in all of Hampton Roads, Hampton Coliseum is set on 75 acres adjacent to the Hampton Roads Convention Center. The arena is perfect for indoor athletics such as wrestling, basketball, hockey and gymnastics. Venue amenities include four team dressing rooms, two officials' rooms, full box office with nine ticket windows, pressroom, first aid room and eight concessions stands.
Hampton Roads Convention Center
Boasting 35 meeting spaces with the capacity for up to 14,000 delegates, as well as a 108,000-square-foot exhibit hall (divisible by three), the Hampton Roads Convention Center, is the perfect venue for any indoor athletic event. Over 2,700 hotel rooms in close proximity, including an award-winning Embassy Suites hotel, support the center.
Hampton University Convocation Center
Located on the Hampton University campus, the HU Convocation Center has been hosting athletic events since 1993. Accommodating such indoor sports as basketball, cheerleading, aerobics, fencing, boxing, karate and wrestling, the center boasts a 14,112-square-foot exhibition floor and ample stadium seating for 7,200 attendees.
Hampton University Museum
The museum is the oldest African-American museum in the country with an extensive
Grandview Nature Preserve
Ideal for observing wildlife, kayaking, hiking and fishing, this 578-acre preserve and estuary on the Chesapeake Bay includes 2 1/2 miles of tranquil bay-front beach.
Langley Air Force Base
Langley AFB is one of the oldest continuously working air bases in the U.S. The most important mission of Langley AFB is to sustain the ability for fast global deployment and air superiority for the United States or allied armed forces. Langley AFB is situated on 3,152 acres of land between the cities of Hampton (south), NASA LaRC (west), and the northwest and southwest branches of the Back River.
Langley Speedway
Voted one of the top five NASCAR Weekly Racing Series tracks and the only NASCAR Home Track in Coastal Virginia. Langley hosts 11 racing divisions April-October.
Little England Chapel
Virginia's only known African American missionary chapel. Exhibits include handwritten Sunday school lessons, a 12
Peninsula Pilots
The Peninsula Pilots are an amateur baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, collegiate summer baseball league. The team plays its home games at the War Memorial Stadium in Hampton, Virginia. The Pilots first started participating in the Coastal Plain League in 2000.
Peninsula Town Center
An array of shops, dining and
entertainment options featuring
top retailers and specialty outlets.
Shops such as Macy's, Target,
Barnes & Noble, Forever 21,
Build-A-Bear, Cache, The Limited,
New York & Company, Emerson's
Cigars, Hollister and more. Along
with dining and entertainment
options such as the Greene Turtle
Sports Bar & Grill, Frank Beamer's
American Grill, Abuelo's Mexican
Food Embassy, Kenji Fusion, Bensi
Ristorante Italiano, Five Guys,
Chipotle, Cine´Bistro and more.
Peninsula Town Center
An array of shops, dining and
entertainment options featuring
top retailers and specialty outlets.
Shops such as Macy's, Target,
Barnes & Noble, Forever 21,
Build-A-Bear, Cache, The Limited,
New York & Company, Emerson's
Cigars, Hollister and more. Along
with dining and entertainment
options such as the Greene Turtle
Sports Bar & Grill, Frank Beamer's
American Grill, Abuelo's Mexican
Food Embassy, Kenji Fusion, Bensi
Ristorante Italiano, Five Guys,
Chipotle, Cine´Bistro and more.
Phoebus
The Phoebus National Historic District encompasses a classic downtown shopping area featuring an array of businesses. Take a stroll around Mallory and Mellen Streets and you'll encounter antique dealers, artisans and crafts workers, music and bookstores, jewelers and florists, a nautical canvasmaker and even a wholesale seafood company.
Sandy Bottom Nature Park
This 456-acre recreational facility features two lakes, wetlands areas, trails for hiking and biking, fishing, non-motorized boating, picnic areas, children's playground, primitive camping, tent cabins and a beautiful nature center, including a conference room and a classroom available for reservation.
St. George Brewing Co.
Hampton Roads' premiere microbrewery. Come and see how craft beer is made and packaged. Hospitality room and gift shop available.
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