Family things to do in Blacksburg

Arts & Culture

Sinkland Farms

Apperson - Dickerson

Blacksburg Municipal Park

City park featuring a playground & restrooms, plus tennis courts & baseball & soccer fields.

Outdoors

Cascade Falls Trailhead

This 4-mile hiking trail traverses rocky streams to a striking 69-ft. waterfall.

Outdoors

Claytor Lake State Park

Park encompassing a scenic 4,500-acre lake offering swimming, boating, fishing & cabin lodging.

University

Hahn Horticulture Garden

Perennial, water, shade & meadow gardens comprise this campus-based, 6-acre educational site.

Outdoors

New River Trail State Park

This 57-mile-long park with a trail for hiking, biking & horseback riding, plus fishing & camping.

Downtown

Lyric Theatre

Restored 1930s movie house, now a nonprofit, showing first-run & indie films plus live music.

University

Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech

Campus center for the performing arts including plays, symphonies, modern music & dance.

Tom's Creek

Heritage Community Park and Natural Area

Vast expanse of forest & meadow with a creek, picnic shelters & trails for hiking or biking.

Airport Acres

B&B Theatres Blacksburg 11 with B-Roll Bowling

Relaxed, contemporary multiscreen theater featuring showings of mainstream films.