Suffolk Farmers' Market

Suffolk Tourism is pleased to announce that the Suffolk Farmers’ Market-To-Go is transitioning back to the traditional Farmers’ Market held under the open-air pavilion located at 524 North Main Street in Downtown Suffolk. Beginning on ...

Suffolk Virginia Activity Book

Keep the kids interested in visiting Suffolk! Suffolk Tourism presents over 20 pages of FREE kid-based fun, including word searches and scrambles, coloring pages, mazes, crossword puzzles, and more! 

Suffolk Restaurant Update

To help you through this difficult and unprecedented time, Suffolk Tourism is providing a list of locally-owned and operated restaurants that are providing curbside pickup, take-out, and/or delivery. It can be found here (see below) and also on our Facebo...

Walking Tour of Downtown Suffolk

A pleasant stroll through Suffolk’s downtown reveals the richness of our heritage and the role we have played in events that have shaped our great nation. You can trace generations of Suffolk residents by following Virginia Civil War Trails past...

The Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is anything but dismal.

Despite its foreboding moniker, the Great Dismal Swamp is one of few remaining American wildernesses. It is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres ...

Suffolk Art Gallery

Nestled among Victorian and Colonial architecture, you'll find a former library constructed in the early 1960s and repurposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the 1980s. The Gallery hosts a variety of exhibits and through a partnership with the Suffolk Art L...

Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

As Suffolk's premier visual and performing arts venue for Suffolk, the Suffolk Center boasts a year-round schedule featuring musical performances, theatrical productions, ballet, art exhibits, lectures and galas. The classic Greek-Revival structure was bu...

Riddick's Folly House Museum & Gift Shop

In early 1837, a fire ravaged dozens of homes and outbuildings at the north end of Main Street in Suffolk. Out of the ashes of that fire, Mr. Mills Riddick built the home that is known today as Riddick’s Folly. Mills Riddick was a member of a large and pr...

Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

This restored Main Street station displays a two-room HO-scale model of Suffolk in 1907 that was built by the Tidewater Division of the National Model Railroad Association. The station was built in 1885 and has remained basically unchanged over the years....

Suffolk Waterways

Suffolk has over 8,000 acres of lakes and miles of river shoreline. Here are just a few highlights:

Lone Star Lake:- 12 lakes total (1172-acre park)- Freshwater fishing and pier- Four-mile horse trail- Archery range and model airplane flying field- Grills ...