Rangers know a lot about different subjects including park history, wildlife, and plant species.  Do you have a question?

Are you interested in learning about the most common and rare fossils that can be found along the James River?

Join an interpreter on an adventure through the Fossil Beds of Chippokes to see what we can find that will tell us what this area of Virginia was like, millions of years ago...

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

The history of the corn husk doll dates back to Native American craftsmanship, belief systems, and of course the art of storytelling.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

Rangers know a lot about different subjects including park history, wildlife, and plant species.  Do you have a question?

Are you interested in learning about the most common and rare fossils that can be found along the James River?

Join an interpreter on an adventure through the Fossil Beds of Chippokes to see what we can find that will tell us what this area of Virginia was like, millions of years ago...

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

Are you interested in learning about the most common and rare fossils that can be found along the James River?

Join an interpreter on an adventure through the Fossil Beds of Chippokes to see what we can find that will tell us what this area of Virginia was like, millions of years ago...

The American Legion is the nation’s largest veteran's wartime service organization.

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The history of the corn husk doll dates back to Native American craftsmanship, belief systems, and of course the art of storytelling.

What is the oldest way of cooking?

Holiday wreaths are beautiful, diverse, extravagant or quaint, and often handmade classic decorations that have come to represent that good old holiday cheer and spirit.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

Enjoy historical interpretation inside the Brick Kitchen to learn more about this ancient, practical, and culinary craft tradition that is at the center of European cuisine.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The history of the corn husk doll dates back to Native American craftsmanship, belief systems, and of course the art of storytelling.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

What is the oldest way of cooking?

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The holiday season is upon us.

Enjoy historical interpretation inside the Brick Kitchen to learn more about this ancient, practical, and culinary craft tradition that is at the center of European cuisine.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This special craft program involves making fun edible ornaments that will serve winter birds as a dependable food source during the cold winter months.  Participants will make a natural bird feeder using pine cones, peanut butter, string, and birdseed.  While creating your bird feeder, learn about some of our common Virginia backyard winter birds.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Rangers know a lot about different subjects including park history, wildlife, and plant species.  Do you have a question?

With 400 years of history, there are thousands of stories that the land of Chippokes has to offer.

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

For centuries children in what is now Virginia played with corn husk dolls.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Chippokes warmly welcomes you to immerse yourself in the special history, culture, and stories of our park.  Enjoy a relaxing open-air tram ride as we explore the vast timeline and dive into the history of Chippokes.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Pasture Pals is a special program at Chippokes, where guests are introduced to and able to spend quality time with our ambassador farm animals.  Have you ever wondered exactly why donkeys have such long ears?

This special craft program involves making fun edible ornaments that will serve winter birds as a dependable food source during the cold winter months.  Participants will make a natural bird feeder using pine cones, peanut butter, string, and birdseed.  While creating your bird feeder, learn about some of our common Virginia backyard winter birds.

Bring the family and celebrate this New Year by adventuring out into the woods and on the Trail with a ranger. All tiny participants will be given helpful hands-on bug finding tools for investigating nature signs.    Let's try to use all of our senses to see, smell, touch, track and observe.

Kick off this new year the right way, outdoors, up and on your feet and out on the trail at your local Virginia State Park.

Time to polish your beginner or advanced identification skills for the local fauna of Virginia.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Bring the family and celebrate this New Year by adventuring out into the woods and on the Trail with a ranger. All tiny participants will be given helpful hands-on bug finding tools for investigating nature signs.    Let's try to use all of our senses to see, smell, touch, track and observe.

This special craft program involves making fun edible ornaments that will serve winter birds as a dependable food source during the cold winter months.  Participants will make a natural bird feeder using pine cones, peanut butter, string, and birdseed.  While creating your bird feeder, learn about some of our common Virginia backyard winter birds.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The month of February is nationally recognized as an annual observance and celebration of African American History and excellence.  Upon visiting the park you'll find many historic buildings and structures that are direct links to the time period of enslavement, vast agricultural fields, and plentiful cultural, natural, and historical resources.

Is love for life, within the animal kingdom?

This special craft program involves making fun edible ornaments that will serve winter birds as a dependable food source during the cold winter months.  Participants will make a natural bird feeder using pine cones, peanut butter, string, and birdseed.  While creating your bird feeder, learn about some of our common Virginia backyard winter birds.

Is love for life, within the animal kingdom?

The Virginia Master Naturalist Historic Southside Chapter will be hosting a guided hike and workshop experience for all experience-levels to attend and enjoy.

The month of February is nationally recognized as an annual observance and celebration of African American History and excellence.  Upon visiting the park you'll find many historic buildings and structures that are direct links to the time period of enslavement, vast agricultural fields, and plentiful cultural, natural, and historical resources.

Is love for life, within the animal kingdom?

The Virginia Master Naturalist Historic Southside Chapter will be hosting a guided hike and workshop experience for all experience-levels to attend and enjoy.

Chippokes is pleased to offer a winter-time special educational series, Where are they Now?

Celebrate National Pig Day and meet a very special ambassador animal of Chippokes, Tazewell the pot belly pig.  Potbellied pigs are native to Southeast Asia and have been imported into the U.S.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

During this workshop, participants can observe, study, and dissect their very own owl pellet.

Bring the family and adventure out into the woods and on the Trail with a ranger. All tiny participants will be given helpful hands-on bug finding tools for investigating nature signs.    Let's try to use all of our senses to see, smell, touch, track and observe.

Come on out to Pasture Pals and get your very own, special serving of quality time with our ambassador farm animals.

Come on out to Chippokes State Park and discover what is left of a forgotten historic roadway on this ranger-led hike. Learn about historic transportation routes, the area's first inhabitants, speculation and myths of the road, and natural history.

What is the oldest way of cooking?

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

What is the oldest way of cooking?

Enjoy historical interpretation inside the Brick Kitchen to learn more about this ancient, practical, and culinary craft tradition that is at the center of European cuisine.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Are you interested in learning about the most common and rare fossils that can be found along the James River?

Join an interpreter on an adventure through the Fossil Beds of Chippokes to see what we can find that will tell us what this area of Virginia was like, millions of years ago...

Come on out to Pasture Pals and get your very own, special serving of quality time with our ambassador farm animals.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The Friends of Chippokes, park staff, and volunteers welcome one and all to our annual Easter Egg Hunt.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Come on out to Chippokes and prepare for Eclipse Day 2024!

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

The Virginia Master Naturalist Historic Southside Chapter will be hosting a guided hike and workshop experience for all experience-levels to attend and enjoy.

Upon visiting the park you'll find many historic buildings and structures that are direct links to the time period of enslavement, vast agricultural fields, and plentiful cultural, natural, and historical resources.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Adventure into the outdoors and discover wildlife along the Trail with a ranger. All tiny participants will be given helpful hands-on bug finding tools for investigating nature signs.   Let's try to use all of our senses to see, smell, touch, track and observe.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Are you interested in learning about the most common and rare fossils that can be found along the James River?

Join an interpreter on an adventure through the Fossil Beds of Chippokes to see what we can find that will tell us what this area of Virginia was like, millions of years ago...

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

Are you someone that finds the different types of fossils found here at Chippokes State Park, absolutely fascinating?

What is the oldest way of cooking?

This historical building tour is designed to highlight the architecture of the time, designs, furnishings, special touches, ornate decor, and stories within the walls of the Jones-Stewart Mansion.

What is the oldest way of cooking?