If you have time, hit up Williamsburg/Yorktown/Jamestown. Or visit Civil War sites all over the place near C'ville.
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As a local, I'm curious as to why you hate it here?
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Give yourself plenty of time. That traffic is a pain and almost made me late for a couple weddings.
I usually take the MMMBT and shoot down 664 to 264. The HRBT can be brutal. Especially now that they are doing maintenance.
A brother of a friend of mine got arrested for driving buck naked in a convertible on one of those tunnel-bridge highways, tripping on acid. That was a real crowd-pleaser.
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Didn't get to go to Monticello, but if you're looking for good food in town, you should definitely hit up Mas Tapas. You might have to wait a bit depending on what time you show up, but it's well worth it.
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spend time out at Wintergreen Resort. It's not too far from Charlottesville. If you're a beer drinking, Lickinghole Creek is in Goochland (they have fantastic barrel aged beers). I know neither are in Charlottesville, but they aren't terribly far. Have fun!
Go to Beer Run.
Also go get a burger at Riverside Lunch...
...trust me, you won't regret either!
I agree with both of those. Riverside is nothing special, but I love it. Restaurant wise, aside from other restaurants named throughout this thread I'd add Continental Divide, Bluegrass Grill (breakfast), our farmer's markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays usually have great food.
Checking out the grounds, since UVA is too cool to have a campus, is cool for visitors.
Nelson County, just south has great hiking, breweries and wineries. Blue mountain brewery has a great place to hang out outside.
There is always tons of live music going on as well.
- Dr. Ho's Pizza
- Royal Indian restaurant
- Christian's Pizza (on Downtown Mall)
- Several good microbreweries: Starr Hill in Crozet, Devil's Backbone (see http://brewridgetrail.com/)
- Lampo Pizza (http://www.lampopizza.com/#antipasti)
- Belmont is a cool area (a bit east/southeast of Downtown Mall)
It's a nice area, but I'm usually up for a day in Charlottesville before I need to get my ass to Dubuque.
There is a really nice elevated boardwalk through the woods around Monticello that drops you off in a park. I suggest you allow yourself enough time to enjoy that as well.
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Other presidents houses around there. Luray cavrens is pretty cool. I would assume that there are a bunch of civil war sites, especially in the Valley.
Head on over to Bodo's for breakfast and lunch, awesome bagel sandwiches. Monticello is fun, Skyline drive is a nice day trip out to the Shenendoah. You could also drive out to Wintergreen which is fun summer or winter. I actually worked as a Fedex driver in C'ville so literally know every corner of that area from just west of Richmond all the way back to Nelson County and Wintergreen.. One of the interesting things is a private castle in Afton that has it's driveway as a private bridge across the interstate, that's pretty impressive, it's not open to the public but as a Fedex guy I got to drive right up there.
Native Detroiter now in the 757 since '98. I do not know a whole lot about Charlottesville but I just wanted to say What's up to all the fellow Wolverines in the VA. I ca not wait to see you at AJ Gator's on Holland in Va Beach(Ihave found that to be a place for us Wolverines to congregate) or better yet let's represent big time this season at the suckeye/Browns bar Tango's(off of Witchduck Rd also in Va Beach) and take over that place. I'll see all of you September 3rd!!
PS The historical sites are great and both Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens are a blast although very crowded this time of year.
If you can, make it to citizen burger on the downtown mall. Some of the best burgers I've had.
- Mudhouse (coffee house on Downtown Mall)
- Revolutionary Soup (just off of Downtown Mall), scratch-made locally-sourced soups, salads, sandwiches
- South Street Brewery (just off of Downtown Mall)
- Walk around UVA Campus/Grounds, see Rotunda and central green area.
- Peter Chang's China Grill (North Wing of Barracks Road shopping area)
- Taste of China (a little bit north on 29)
- Main Street Market (a small plaza with various boutique-y foodie shops such as feast! and Gearharts Chocolates on W Main St)
- Walk around the neighborhood just north of Downtown Mall: Court Square and surrounding streets; very interesting large, old houses. Also, IIRC, just in front of the courthouse in Court Square is where slaves were auctioned off back in 18th/19th centuries (that gave me chill as I learned that while standing there)
- Scottsville (a bit South of Charlottesville), rent a canoe/kayak and do a day trip on the James River (we've had lots of rain this spring/summer so the river is running high/fast)
- There are some interesting vinyl record shops downtown (if you're into vinyl): Melody Supreme, Sidetracks Music.
May I humbly suggest you take an hour or two and walk around the UVA grounds. It really is worth the experience. I don't think they'd be doing tours in the summer, but you never know. Also, Monticello isn't the only presidential mansion in the area; someone mentioned Montpelier which is maybe 30 minutes away, and Ash Lawn-Highland is the house of James Monroe and right next door to Monticello. Actually there are two former houses belonging to Monroe in the area; one is smack in the middle of the UVA grounds.
Stop saying grounds. Its a fucking campus.
Also when I was there for a model un conference in high school we went to the white spot and it was pretty good. Plus as the only predominatley black school at the conference we found it funny in a "uva frats have been known to make their pledges but on black face and pick cotton and they have a restaurant called the white spot" sort of way."
Grounds grounds grounds grounds grounds. It's not a campus. Or, it's a campus that's called grounds.
While we are at it other annoying things from uva. Wearing ties to football games and pretending to ignore that the University of Maryland has the largest mall in the country, not UVA.
What Bastards!
Nobody from UVA ever said UVA had the "largest mall in the country." Just the only one that's a World Heritage Site.
The change from calling it Big Jim's is a really recent development, so I don't know all that much about it.
Beer: Three Notch'd Brewery, Champion Brewery, Blue Mt. Brewery
Wine: Pollak, Moss,
Outdoor: Shenedoah National Park, Tube the James River in Scottsville, Sugar Hollow,
Definitely 2nd Bodo's Bagels! They have 3 locations I believe now so you should't be too far from any of them. Another breakfast spot is Spudnuts Doughnuts. Made from potatoes, hence the name and they usually have a line out the door starting at 6am. But bring cash, no CC type of place.
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