It seems as though downtown Leesburg has a new art gallery with some celebrity cache. Washington Redskins tight end and fan favorite Chris Cooley is opening an art gallery in downtown Leesburg on Friday, December 10. The Cooley Gallery, located at 12 South King Street, will regularly feature ceramics, painting, photography, and artwork in other mediums. Much of the work will be Chris’s own...
The Middleburg Christmas Parade is this Saturday, December 4th. To say this is a Loudoun signature event would be an understatement. Since the early 1900s, Loudoun has been known far and wide as horse and hunt country, and nowhere has that been the case more than in the quaint enclave of Middleburg. And each year, during the first Saturday in December, the town becomes...
View Larger Map Drive One: Snickersville Turnpike (15 miles) Follow this historic Virginia byway over rolling foothills and across Goose Creek and its tributaries from the Village of Aldie to the Village of Bluemont. This historic route, only 15 miles long, was traversed by George Washington, and was the scene of clashes during the Civil War. Lucikly, the “turnpike booth” closed in 1915, so...
As a kid, there are few holidays better than Halloween, and Loudoun has some great Halloween experiences for kids. From a parade in Leesburg, to a huge air and space museum turned spooky spaceport, Loudoun on Halloween won’t disappoint. On Saturday, October 23, head to the National Air and Space Museum Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles for Air & Scare! This kid-friendly event...
Once the sun sets, and the warm sunny days give way to the chill and darkness of evening in Autumn, the picturesque setting that is Loudoun succumbs to a whole different experience. The rolling landscape, dotted with stately oaks and elegant manors, become seemingly more remote, stark, and lonely. Charming small towns, alive with people moving here and there in the hours before dusk,...