VNLA Summer Tour 2012
Tentative Schedule - subject to change
Pre-Registration Form (Field Day and Summer Tour)
Wednesday Evening
5:30 and 6:30 pm Bus leaves Comfort Inn for shuttle to Montpelier
Guided House Tours of James Madison's Montpelier
Self-guided Tours of the gardens and grounds
Gourmet BBQ dinner with beer and wine
9 and 9:30 pm shuttle bus back to the Comfort Inn
Thursday, August 9, ROUTE SUMMARY
7:45am - complete checkout and Board buses
7:45am - 8:15 buses depart for Library of Congress
8:15-10am - Library of Congress green roof, reflecting pool area gardens and forestation project - panoramic view of Blue Ridge; theatre tour/orientation and lobby views
10-10:30am - bus to Tre Sorelle, Locust Dale (rt 15)
10:30-11:30am - Tre Sorelle
11:30-11:45am - bus to Inn at Willow Grove, Orange rt 15
11:45-12:45 - tours of landscape gardens at Inn at Willow Grove
12:45-1pm - bus to Comfort Inn
NO LUNCH PROVIDED - LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
lunch options:
Orange
- Real Food - across from Comfort Inn
- The Light Well, Main Street
- Elmwood at Sparks, Main Street
- Mario's Pizza buffet - Main & May Fray
for those heading Southwest toward Charlottesville, the Valley and I-81
- Stonefire Station, Barboursville, Rts 33 and 20, south of Montpelier
for those heading Southeast toward Richmond/Tidewater
- Barbecue Exchange, Gordonsville
- Pomme, Main St, Gordonsville
for those heading North
- Croftburn Market, - Rts 29 and 666, Culpeper
- It's about Thyme, - E. Davis Street, Culpeper