Suffolk Farmers' Market

The Suffolk Farmers’ Market is now open, in the Suffolk Visitor Center Pavilion at 524 North Main Street. The weekly market is enjoyed by locals and visitors searching for fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, baked goods, meats and eggs, j...

TGIF Summer Concert Series

It's that time of year again! Join your neighbors at Constant's Wharf Park & Marina and Bennett's Creek Park for the TGIF Summer Concert Series in Suffolk. Enjoy this free and family-friendly event in the park, as a different band plays a variety of o...

One-Person Exhibit by Barbara Hennig-Loomis

Barbara Hennig-Loomis is a German-born artist living in Cape Charles, Virginia. She holds a BFA in Art History, an MFA in Visual Studies and studied as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany. In addition to being a working artist, she is currently an instructor at...

Storytime at the Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

Suffolk Tourism is partnering with the Suffolk Public Library for a summertime “Storytime at the Station” series. This fun, interactive storytelling program is geared toward children ages three to seven. Storytime at the Station will b...

Murder On The Orient Express

The Suffolk Division of Tourism is pleased to present the blockbuster mystery movie, Murder On The Orient Express, at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, on Thursday, August 16, 2018, at 7pm. This epic adventure film is based on the thrilling best-selli...

A Night Under The Stars Paint Party

Join us at the Suffolk Visitor‘s Center Pavilion for "A Night Under the Stars" Paint Party with Paint Me Purple Studios on Saturday, September 15, 2018, at 7pm. We'll paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and eat delicious treats! ...

American Girl Program: Gabriela McBride

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 ...