Field Trips
Check back in early 2020 for field trip listings. Below are 2019 field trips.
Check back in early 2020 for field trip listings. Below are 2019 field trips.
Experienced cyclists: Discover the Cannon Creek greenway, the Shockoe Valley Streets Improvement Project, urban agriculture, and other revitalization efforts underway in Richmond.
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–4:00 pm | Limit 12 |
Description: This bike tour for experienced cyclists, led by Richmond’s pedestrian, bicycle and trail coordinator, will last 2-3 hours. The ride will introduce participants to the urban Cannon Creek greenway, the Shockoe Valley Streets Improvement Project, several urban agriculture ventures, and other revitalization efforts that have been undertaken in the City of Richmond. Tour leaders will describe how projects were accomplished along the route, which includes on-road portions. Bring your own helmet. Electric bikes provided by the City of Richmond.
Download Cannon Creek Bike Tour EEC (PDF)
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–4:00 pm | Limit 9 |
Description: This out-and-back-hike (estimated 4 miles) will head south to the James River and cross a bike/ped bridge over rapids, a designated section of the East Coast Greenway. The group will head over to Belle Isle Park, where Northern soldiers were imprisoned during the Civil War. See the ruins of 19th and 20th-century industries that inhabited the island. A 21st century pump track teaches youngsters how to mountain bike (who said exercise can’t be fun!) Staff from James River Park system will guide this adventure and provide the latest information on the park and City’s master plan.
Download TPot and Bell Isle Hiking Trip EEC (PDF)
Journey along scenic Route 5 and Osbourne Turnpike to learn about the significance of these roads and surrounding landscape, and efforts underway to preserve the special qualities of this Virginia Scenic Byway. Stops at the Four Mile Creek Trailhead of the Virginia Capital Trail, Malvern Hill, and Osborne Park Boat Landing. We have five knowledgeable speakers. Thanks to Riverside Outfitters for sponsoring this trip.
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–4:00 pm | Limit 25 |
Download Route 5 Bus Tour EEC (PDF)
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–4:00 pm | Limit 20 |
Description: This African-American cemetery was created in 1891 and was exempted from a 1919 law that required perpetual care to be included in the price of a lot. Leaders of Richmond’s African-American community are buried here, including Maggie Walker, but the graves are in disrepair. The Enrichmond Foundation acquired the property in 2017 and is partnering with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to protect and restore it. Join Enrichmond, VOF, and the Department of Historic Resources for this tour of the cemetery. Following the tour, participants can give back by helping to clear brush and debris or by recording grave info
Download Evergreen Cemetery Trip EEC (PDF)
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–2:30 pm | Limit 14 |
Description: Participants will visit the Low Line, a 5.5-acre green oasis along the historic waterfront following the Virginia Capital Trail. This urban park along the James River and Kanawha Canal utilizes native plants and green infrastructure to mitigate storm water runoff. Participants will travel to the Low Line by bus and back by foot along the Canal Walk, which stretches 1.25 miles along the James River and the Kanawha and Haxall Canals
Download Low Line Walking Tour EEC (PDF)
Enjoy scenic bluff-top views overlooking the York River and neo-tropical bird migration watching on this trip to the recently acquired Ware Creek Wildlife Management Area in New Kent County.
Monday, April 8, 2019 | 1:00–4:00 pm | Limit 20 |
Description: Join a field trip to the recently acquired Ware Creek Wildlife Management Area in New Kent County and learn about DGIF’s WMA habitat and wildlife management practices. Enjoy scenic bluff-top views overlooking the York River and neo-tropical bird migration watching. Located on the York River and bound by Philbates and Ware Creeks, the Ware Creek WMA offers extensive wetlands, mixed hardwood, pine forests, open fields and two miles of frontage on the York River. The uplands of Ware Creek WMA are comprised primarily of variously aged mixed pine and hardwood forests with some pine plantation. Agricultural fields offer upland habitat variety along with small wildlife clearings. Wetlands include rich saltmarshes as well as tidal freshwater marshes and small interior ponds and beaver wetlands.
Download Ware Creek Wildlife Management Area EEC (PDF)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Limit 12 |
Description: Join Cat Anthony, director of the Capital Trail Foundation, for a one-hour, easy bike tour of the amazing Virginia Capital Trail that links Richmond to Jamestown. The ride will introduce you to an urban greenway and various revitalization efforts that have been undertaken in the City of Richmond. Tour leaders will describe how projects were accomplished along the route, which is all off-road. Experience riding an electric bicycle, which allows you to decide how much effort to put into the trip.
Download Virginia Capital Trail Mobile Bike Trip EEC (PDF)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Limit 15 |
Description: During this discussion tour, participants will walk along a footprint of the slave trading businesses that existed east of the railroad tracks to 19th Street between E. Broad and E. Main streets, with a narrative thread running from Richmond’s evolution from a village on Shockoe Creek to the nation’s epicenter of the domestic slave trade and the end of the civil war; its social and civic structures as a “slave society”, and the pervasive and everyday experience of living amidst the trade in human beings for profit.
Download Slave Trail Walking Field Trip (PDF)
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