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FALL 2016
Pumpkins, Zombies, and Leaves…Oh My!
orange of pumpkins ready for harvest. Festivals and events are frequent this time of year and focus on music, crafts, and even spooky activities. There’s fourteen nights of scary at the Haunted Graham Mansion. This wildly popular attraction is all is an excellent time to visit located within a real historic Wytheville, Virginia. Easily accessible via Interstates 77 mansion and surrounding grounds and runs from late or 81, this small town makes a September to early November. In great detour on your Blue Ridge mid-October, the spooky moves Parkway experience. to Downtown Wytheville as the Many local farms offer a annual Zombie Run is held on cornucopia of experiences as Saturday, October 22. Trick fields are blanketed with the
or treating, pet and children’s costume contests, and a zombie parade precede the actual Zombie Run which begins at 4:00 p.m. An adult Halloween costume party closes out the event that evening. Music can be found at many locations throughout the Wytheville area, but one of the most beautiful in the autumn is the stage at Big Walker Lookout. Every weekend is a musical one at this mountain top location
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Shenandoah Valley Wine Trail
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t has been said by many that the Shenandoah Valley is one of the country’s most exciting wine producing regions today, with positive critical reviews being found in major food and wine publications nationwide. As the praise and awards continue to accumulate, Shenandoah Valley wines have become sought-after products in fine restaurants and wine shops from coast to coast and internationally. The Shenandoah Valley has clearly emerged as a regional wine leader in the eastern United States. A tour of the Valley’s wineries offers a special experience, with rural scenery, entertainment, quality restaurants and award winning wines.
with a variety of local musicians, artisans and authors each Saturday and Sunday. For more information about everything the area has to offer, contact the Wytheville Convention & Visitors Bureau, toll-free at 1-877-347-8307, or visit www. VisitWytheville.com
More information or wine trail map, visit:
shenandoahvalleywinetrail.com
Wineries - North to South
Veramar Vineyard........................... Berryville, Valerie Hill Vineyard & Winery....Stephens City Wicked Oak Farms & Vineyard....Star Tannery, Cedar Creek Winery...................Star Tannery, North Mountain Vineyard & Winery................ .................................................Maurertown Muse Vineyards........................... Woodstock, Shenandoah Vineyards..................... Edinburg Wolf Gap Vineyard.......................... Edinburg Cave Ridge Vineyard...................Mt. Jackson, The Winery at Kindred Pointe.........Mt. Jackson DeMello Vineyards........................Quicksburg
Old Hill Cidery.............................. Timberville Wisteria Farm & Vineyard....................Stanley CrossKeys Vineyards................. Mt. CrawfordBluestone Vineyard.......................Bridgewater Barren Ridge Vineyards.................. Fishersville Ox-Eye Vineyards.............................Staunton Hunt’s Vineyard..........................Stuarts Draft, Rockbridge Vineyard..........................Raphine Jump Mountain Vineyard.......Rockbridge Baths Lexington Valley Vineyard......Rockbridge Baths Blue Ridge Vineyard...................... Eagle Rock