Things to Do in Charlottesville

Free Activities

Requires a Car

  • Farmers market at IX Art Park and on the downtown mall

  • Humpback Rocks hike 

  • Carters Mountain for fruit picking, picnics, scenery

  • Ivy creek natural area

  • Rivanna Trail

  • Kluge Ruhe Art Museum

  • Saunders-Monticello trail

  • 21+: Wineries such as King Family, Thatch, Glass House

  • Visible Records Art Gallery

  • Birdwood golf course at Boar’s Head Resort

Can be Accessed by Walking

  • Activities on the Corner, such as Boylan Heights trivia and Crozet Pizza dance lessons

  • UPC events

  • Farmers market at IX Art Park and downtown mall

  • Scavenger hunts with friends

  • Ohill trails

  • Walk the downtown mall

  • The Fralin Art Museum

Paying Activities

Requires a Car

  • 21+: Wineries such as King Family, Thatch, Glass House

  • The Looking Glass interactive Art Exhibition at IX Art Park

  • Monticello

  • Shenandoah National Park

  • Glass Palette for glass blowing

  • Jump Cville Trampoline Park

  • Decades Arcade

  • Take a day trip to Richmond!

  • Kayak the Rivanna

Can be Accessed by Walking

  • Explore the local restaurant scene

  • The Looking Glass interactive Art Exhibition at IX Art Park