Holiday Gift Fair

Support local farms, crafters, and artisans at the Suffolk Holiday Gift Market, a seasonal twist on the traditional Suffolk Famers’ Market.

Join us Saturday, December 5, 2020, from 10am until 3pm as we showcase  25+ vendors off...

Suffolk Virginia Activity Book: Holiday Edition available now!

Need something to keep the little ones busy during the holiday season? Suffolk Tourism is pleased to release the Holiday Edition of their popular free Suffolk-themed activity book for children of all ages. Children can color, connect the dots, and conquer...

Suffolk Festival of Lights at Sleepy Hole Park

Frozen II at the Suffolk Center

The Suffolk Division of Tourism, in partnership with the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, is pleased to present the enchanting animated film, Frozen II, at the Suffolk Center on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at 2pm. Families will love revisiting the adven...

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Suffolk Restaurant Update

To help you through this difficult and unprecedented time, Suffolk Tourism is providing a list of locally-owned and operated restaurants that are providing curbside pickup, take-out, and/or delivery. We will update this regularly with new information as i...

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 re-purposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the mid 1980s. As a community partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Suffol...

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 structu...

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 la...

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 ...