Colonial Parkway
- Virginia
photo: National Park Service
Why go there?
Colonial Parkway is a beautiful 23-mile scenic parkway that links the three points of Virginia's Historic Triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. It is part of the National Park Service's Colonial National Historical Park, with portions of the road built between 1930 and 1957. It is an ideal place for a leisurely drive into America’s past, and it provides a lovely shielded roadway between the three communities. The parkway is free of tolls and semi trucks. As a National Scenic Byway and All-American Road, the Colonial Parkway is also popular with tourists due to the James River and York River ends of the parkway, providing plenty of opportunities for beautiful river vistas.
