For eighty years Virginia State Parks has been a premier outdoor recreation destination. Now boasting 36 state parks across the state, each park offers unique natural and cultural treasures while providing a venue to reconnect with nature and make family memories. In honor of our 80th anniversary, we created a bucket list of 80 "must do" Virginia State Park experiences. 

If you've seen our 80th Anniversary Collector's Edition color brochure, you might already have seen our list of "80 things to do in Virginia State Parks." If not, you can pick one up at a Virginia State Park near you or find the list to download here. 

To stir your adventurous spirit we created a contest to make checking off the experiences more interesting. Simply log your accomplishments in on our contest site. The first time you will enter your first and last name and an email address. Those three items become your account identifier. Other family members may participate, even if they are too young to have their own email address since users can share an email as long as the first and last name is also not identical. You will be asked to provide a mailing address as well so we can send your prizes. We never share this information with anyone. After the first entry, you will have an opportunity to update the information if it changes. 

The experience will be listed under the park that appears in the list so you select the park and the experience. Select "Any Park" for the handful of experiences that can be completed at any of our parks. Check out the prizes based on how many items you complete:
 

While you visit parks on your quest to accomplish the 80 Things, be sure to also participate in our Trail Quest program. Log each park you visit and earn unique hiking pins as you visit more parks. Find out more about this program here. 

You must complete the activities during 2016 and can only count each item once (including those activities that can be achieved at any park). Qualifying activities must be entered on the contest site no later than January 7, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Only one loyalty program prize per household. The winner of the $500 gift certificate will be selected on January 8, 2017 by a random number generator from those participants that completed at least 40 activities. The winner will be announced in a blog post on January 8.

366 Days - 80 Experiences - How many will you do?