Meet Santa in Suffolk!

Suffolk Tourism knows how busy the holiday season can be, and at the top of every kid's wish list is a visit with Santa. Well we've made it easy for you with two convenient locations, and THREE separate times to meet up with the big guy! Beautiful holiday...

Carols & Lullabies of the Southwest

The Virginia Choral Society, in partnership with the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, presents "Carols and Lullabies of the Southwest" on Saturday, December 15, 2018, beginning at 4pm. Tickets are $15 for reserved seating, and members can save ...

New Year's Eve Bash at the Hilton Garden Inn Suffolk Riverfront

Make plans now to ring in 2019 at the Third Annual New Year's Eve Bash, on Monday, December 31, 2018, from 8pm to 1am. There is no other place in Suffolk that has a New Year's Eve party like this. Tickets are $50 per person and include a full course buffe...

Global Citizens: Resilient Communities - 31st Annual Young Artists and Authors Showcase

Sister Cities International aims to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation – one individual, one community at a time. Each year, the Young Artists and Authors Showcase encourages youth from around the globe to expre...

American Girl Program: Kirsten Larson

The Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is anything but dismal.

Despite its foreboding moniker, the Great Dismal Swamp is one of few remaining American wildernesses. It is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres ...

Suffolk Art Gallery

Nestled among Victorian and Colonial architecture, you'll find a former library constructed in the early 1960s and repurposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the 1980s. The Gallery hosts a variety of exhibits and through a partnership with the Suffolk Art L...

Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

As Suffolk's premier visual and performing arts venue for Suffolk, the Suffolk Center boasts a year-round schedule featuring musical performances, theatrical productions, ballet, art exhibits, lectures and galas. The classic Greek-Revival structure was bu...

Riddick's Folly House Museum & Gift Shop

In early 1837, a fire ravaged dozens of homes and outbuildings at the north end of Main Street in Suffolk. Out of the ashes of that fire, Mr. Mills Riddick built the home that is known today as Riddick’s Folly. Mills Riddick was a member of a large and pr...

Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

This restored Main Street station displays a two-room HO-scale model of Suffolk in 1907 that was built by the Tidewater Division of the National Model Railroad Association. The station was built in 1885 and has remained basically unchanged over the years....

Suffolk Waterways

Suffolk has over 8,000 acres of lakes and miles of river shoreline. Here are just a few highlights:

Lone Star Lake:- 12 lakes total (1172-acre park)- Freshwater fishing and pier- Four-mile horse trail- Archery range and model airplane flying field- Grills ...