Welcome to Lexington, Virginia and Rockbridge County. This may be just what you're looking for to spend a day, a weekend, or a week. There's history, shopping, theater, outdoor life and more in our little corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Take a minute to explore our site, to find even more to discover and explore during your stay.
Natural Bridge Zoo
The Natural Bridge Zoo offers the chance to see and learn about animals, particularly a number of threatened and endangered species. What better way to learn than hands on encounters, pictures with Baby Tigers are offered Memorial Day through Labor Day.…
Lee Chapel
The chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University was built under the supervision of Robert E. Lee while he was president of the school. The chapel contains the crypt where Lee and his immediate family are interred, and a museum that highlights…
Rockbridge Vineyard
Shakespeare once wrote, “A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou.” Had he come along a few centuries later than he lived, he might have been referring to a jug of Virginia wine. Today, according to the Virginia Wine Marketing Office, the Old Dominion…
Cyrus McCormick Farm
In July of 1831, Cyrus McCormick's invention, the first sucessful mechanical reaper, was demonstrated on one of McCormick's wheat fields. The reaper, which harvested grain five times faster with much less effort than a man with a scythe or sickle. was…
