Things to Do W/ LO on Vacation in Charlottesville VA

When we went to visit my little sis in VA, I believe my daughter was like 18. My sis took us to the beach stores, my daughter and I love little shops like that. My sis lived in Portsmouth at the time so we would walk around her neighborhood since it was considered a tourist place. It was so beautiful!! My daughter loved just walking around, standing by a brick wall and the middle of a busy street, etc. all while I took pictures! Pictures came out so nice! Was fun. We also went to a building garage rummage sale, very cool! My daughter is a fashionista and is studying fashion now, she's 21, loved just going to little eccentric shops, so did I. We also ate at a very cute german place (forgot what my sis called it). We also went to Williamsburg, was so very interesting! My daughter said she had a blast and maybe since my little sis is her favorite Aunty, it was even more fun for her too ;)

*since my daughter loves to read and loves books, we also went to a bookstore.

I don't really know that area but we drove through there about 5 years ago and about an hour from there is a town called "Natural Bridge." There was an amazing drive through safari animal park that I would go out of my way to go to again in a heartbeat. All of us adults loved it and still talk about it. My then 18 month old son was in total heaven looking at the animals and at 6 still loves to pull out the photos and ask me all about it. There were also neat walking trails and caverns near there.

http://www.virginiasafaripark.com/

http://www.naturalbridgeva.com/

Charlottesville is so beautiful and historic. There's a TON to do from visiting UVa to touring Monticello. Both will take a full day.

I grew up in Northern Virginia, had a sister and many high school friends who went to UVa, and still know many people there.

I'd recommend seeing if Charlottesville has a Bureau of Tourism (I can't imagine they don't) and see if they can send you some information.

If you have access to a car, there's a million things to do in the local area from visiting winery's (not good for your LO), to farms, DC is a 2 hour drive, Mannassas Battle Field is ~1 hour away.

VA is so historic and culturally rich, especially C'Ville. You should have no problem keeping your schedule full.