Top 10 Hidden Gems Things to do in Shenandoah Valley, Shenandoah Valley

Come visit our family owned business, a local attraction for 50 years! Harper's specializes in cast stone statuary made onsite. Take a walk along the paths to enjoy our water gardens and fountains. Be inspired and let us help you transform your home or business. We are here for you - ready to provide our expertise and answer your questions. Browse through over 800 items - small and large statuary, benches, planters and more. Our family welcomes you!

The Warm Springs Gallery, established in 1995, is a fine art gallery dedicated to the promotion of national and international artists, providing quality and original artwork to art collectors and art enthusiasts alike. The galleries exhibit a diverse roster of established and emerging artists, representing more than twenty painters whose styles span the spectrum from realism to abstraction, through landscape and still lifes, specializing in Virginia landscape paintings. The galleries also exhibit fine crafts, integrating exquisite sculptural objects in glass, wood, clay, fiber, and bronze alongside two-dimensional works. Upstairs at the Warm Springs Gallery is the Garden Room and Café, a combo shop-café offering a beautiful array of handmade home and garden décor, gifts, personal care items, stationery, books, and artisanal foods.The informal café serves sweet bakery pick-me-ups plus savory lunch options. We use only seasonal produce so our lunches are ever changing.

Discover Eastern America’s largest and most popular caverns. 4,000,000 centuries in the making, this “must see” U.S. Natural Landmark is noted for the profuse variety of formations and unsurpassed natural color. One hour tours from well-lighted, paved walkways lead visitors through cathedral-sized rooms with ceilings 10 stories high. Enormous chambers are filled with towering stone columns, shimmering draperies and crystal-clear pools. Also in this subterranean wonderland, “hear rocks sing” as you experience the haunting sounds of the world’s largest musical instrument, The Great Stalacpipe Organ. Completely unique are the beautiful tones created by this one-of-a-kind instrument, which makes music of concert quality from the surrounding stalactite formations covering more than three acres.

The oldest, standing covered-bridge in Virginia.

A "must see" on most visitors list, an 88-foot manmade star (the largest in the world) sits on majestic Mill Mountain along with a beautifully landscaped city park, that boasts hiking and biking trails, and a zoo.

The Frontier Culture Museum is an outdoor living history museum that tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendants. The Museum shows how a new and unique culture evolved in early America from its roots in the Old World. Living History interpreters work in original and reconstructed buildings from Europe, Africa, and America to illustrate how diverse people and cultures blended together into a new American way of life. The Museum operates on about 200 acres with 11 major exhibits divided into 2 sections: The Old World, and America. The Old World exhibits show rural life and culture in four homelands of early migrants to the American colonies. The American exhibits show the life these colonists, slaves, and their descendants created in the colonial back-country, how this life changed over more than a century, and how life in the United States today is shaped by its frontier past.

Season: Open Daily April 1 to October 31 BE SURE LISTING SHOWS WE ARE CLOSED FOR THE OFF SEASON. Wartime home of Stonewall Jackson in wintertime of 1861-62. Contains numerous Jacksonian items, including furniture, prayer table and desk. His well worn daily prayer book , a gift from his sister, is also on display.