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Suffolk

Experience Southern hospitality and charm
Virginia’s largest geographic city offers a perfect spot for the business traveler. The city includes 430 square miles of forests, meandering rivers and historic and cultural sites. Suffolk has become a diverse community, and it offers visitors plenty to do. They can tour historic churches, sample peanuts from an antique roaster, golf at one of the city’s 18-hole golf courses, walk along the riverfront promenade, visit Civil War sites or explore the vast Great Dismal Swamp. Suffolk includes a quaint downtown, full of unique shops.

The area is perfect for meeting attendees who need to burn some extra energy after their meetings. Suffolk is also a great place for an outdoor enthusiast. Campgrounds, hiking trails, horseback riding stables and fishing spots are plentiful throughout Suffolk.

Suffolk Division of Tourism (View PDF)
321 N. Main St.
Suffolk, VA 23434
(757) 923-3883; (866) SEE-SUFK
www.Suffolk-Fun.com
Contact: Theresa L. Earles, tourism development coordinator
tearles@city.suffolk.va.us

The city offers convenient and well-appointed meeting facilities, including the 150-room Hilton Garden Inn Suffolk on the Nansemond River. The hotel includes 14,000 square feet of meeting space, a 28-slip marina and a six-acre park. Other meeting facilities include the Holiday Inn Suffolk and unique meeting locales such as The Natinoal Guard Armory and the Planters Club, a newly renovated waterfront facility.

Attractions

Riddick’s Folly House Museum
Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Suffolk Seaboard Station
Railroad Museum
Suffolk Museum
Nansemond Indian Museum
Virginia Civil War Trails

Golf

Cedar Point Country Club (757) 238-3554
Nansemond River Golf Club (757) 539-4356
Rivermont Golf Club
at Harborview (757) 484-2200
Sleepy Hole Golf Course (757) 538-4100
Suffolk Golf Course (757) 539-6298

Shopping

Harbour View Station
Downtown Suffolk Business District
Driver Village
Suffolk Shopping Center