This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Virginia state park system.
Virginia opened its entire state park system on 15 June 1936 as a six-park system. The six original state parks were Seashore State Park (now First Landing State Park ), Westmoreland State Park , Staunton River State Park , Douthat State Park , Fairy Stone State Park , and Hungry Mother State Park . The park system now oversees 43 parks.[1]
State parks
Virginia State Parks (Hover mouse over pog to popup clickable link)
Name
Web- site
Location
Size[1]
Established[1]
Status
Remarks
Bear Creek Lake State Park
[1]
Cumberland
329 acres (1.33 km2 )
1939
Open
Belle Isle State Park
[2]
Lancaster County
892 acres (3.61 km2 )
1993
Open
Breaks Interstate Park
[3]
Breaks
4,500 acres (18 km2 )
1954
Open
Caledon State Park
[4]
King George
2,587 acres (10.47 km2 )
1974
Open
Chippokes Plantation State Park
[5]
Surry
1,947 acres (7.88 km2 )
1967
Open
Claytor Lake State Park
[6]
Dublin
472 acres (1.91 km2 )
1951
Open
Clinch River State Park
[7]
St. Paul
640 acres (2.6 km2 )
2017
Open[2]
Douthat State Park
[8]
Millboro
4,545 acres (18.39 km2 )
1933
Open
Fairy Stone State Park
[9]
Stuart
4,741 acres (19.19 km2 )
1933
Open
False Cape State Park
[10]
Virginia Beach
3,844 acres (15.56 km2 )
1968
Open
First Landing State Park
[11]
Virginia Beach
2,888 acres (11.69 km2 )
1933
Open
Originally Seashore State Park [1]
Grayson Highlands State Park
[12]
Mouth of Wilson
4,502 acres (18.22 km2 )
1965
Open
High Bridge Trail State Park
[13]
Farmville
1,236 acres (5.00 km2 )
2006
Open
Holliday Lake State Park
[14]
Appomattox
560 acres (2.3 km2 )
1939
Open
Hungry Mother State Park
[15]
Marion
3,334 acres (13.49 km2 )
1933
Open
James River State Park
[16]
Gladstone
1,561 acres (6.32 km2 )
1993
Open
Kiptopeke State Park
[17]
Cape Charles
562 acres (2.27 km2 )
1992
Open
Lake Anna State Park
[18]
Spotsylvania County
3,127 acres (12.65 km2 )
1972
Open
Leesylvania State Park
[19]
Woodbridge
556 acres (2.25 km2 )
1975
Open
Machicomoco State Park
[20]
Gloucester
645 acres (2.61 km2 )
2019
Open[3]
Mason Neck State Park
[21]
Lorton
1,856 acres (7.51 km2 )
1967
Open
Mayo River State Park
Spencer
617 acres (2.50 km2 )
2009
Under Development
Planned opening Spring 2022.
Middle Peninsula State Park
[22]
Lancaster County
408 acres (1.65 km2 )
2006
Closed
Currently in conservation status[4]
Natural Bridge State Park
[23]
Natural Bridge
1,540 acres (6.2 km2 )
2016
Open
Natural Tunnel State Park
[24]
Duffield
909 acres (3.68 km2 )
1967
Open
New River Trail State Park
[25]
Fosters Falls
1,217 acres (4.93 km2 )
1987
Open
Occoneechee State Park
[26]
Clarksville
2,698 acres (10.92 km2 )
1968
Open
Pocahontas State Park
[27]
Chesterfield
7,919 acres (32.05 km2 )
1946
Open
Powhatan State Park
[28]
Powhatan
1,565 acres (6.33 km2 )
2003
Open
Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park
[29]
Rice
379 acres (1.53 km2 )
1937
Open
Seven Bends State Park
[30]
Woodstock
1,066 acres (4.31 km2 )
2004
Open
Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park
[31]
Bentonville
1,619 acres (6.55 km2 )
1994
Open
Shot Tower Historical State Park
[32]
Austinville
10 acres (0.040 km2 )
1964
Open
Sky Meadows State Park
[33]
Delaplane
1,860 acres (7.5 km2 )
1975
Open
Smith Mountain Lake State Park
[34]
Huddleston
1,248 acres (5.05 km2 )
1967
Open
Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park
[35]
Big Stone Gap
1.5 acres (0.0061 km2 )
1943
Open
Staunton River State Park
[36]
Scottsburg
2,336 acres (9.45 km2 )
1933
Open
Staunton River Battlefield State Park
[37]
Randolph
300 acres (1.2 km2 )
1955
Open
Tabb Monument
[38]
Amelia County
1 acre (0.0040 km2 )
1936
Open
Twin Lakes State Park
[39]
Green Bay
548 acres (2.22 km2 )
1939
Open
Westmoreland State Park
[40]
Montross
1,321 acres (5.35 km2 )
1933
Open
Widewater State Park
[41]
Stafford
1,089 acres (4.41 km2 )
2019
Open
Wilderness Road State Park
[42]
Ewing
327 acres (1.32 km2 )
1993
Open
York River State Park
[43]
Williamsburg
2,531 acres (10.24 km2 )
1969
Open
See also
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