Hidden Histories of the Transcontinental Railroad

A traveling exhibit from the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, “Hidden Histories” explores the seldom listened-to stories of railroad industry workers on the way to Promontory Point in Utah and the completion of the Transcontinental Railr...

Annual Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival

The Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival (SMAF) will make a virtual return on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Appealing to avid readers and aspiring writers alike, this popular annual event will feature 40 best-selling authors of mystery, suspense, thriller, horror,...

37th Annual Juried Photography Exhibit

Join the Suffolk Art Gallery as they host the 37th Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, the largest and oldest juried photography exhibit in Hampton Roads. The artwork of professional and amateur photographers will be on display March 6 through April 16, 20...

From Stage to Screen at the Suffolk Center: The Phantom of the Opera

Spring Market

The first pre-season Farmers’ Market “Spring Market” at the Suffolk Visitor Center Pavilion will feature 25+ vendors offering fresh seasonal produce, meats, eggs, jams and jellies, pickles, baked goods, hot sauces, flavored s...

Suffolk Restaurant Week - Spring 2021 Edition

Indulge Yourself!From Suffolk’s best-kept culinary secrets to national award winning restaurants, Suffolk Restaurant Week promises a savory blend of the city’s signature flavors. The 2021 Spring Suffolk Restaurant Week is slated for Ma...

Historic Garden Week in Suffolk: On The Banks of the Nansemond

Historic Garden Week comes to Suffolk on Saturday, April 17, 2021, from 10am to 4:30pm. This easily-accessible walking tour will feature six beautiful and different gardens in a neighborhood on the banks of the Nansemond River, named by the colonists for ...

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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 re-purposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the mid 1980s. As a community partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Suffol...

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 structu...

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 la...

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 ...