Virginia Capital Trail
Phases:
Greensprings | Chickahominy Riverfront | Sherwood Forest | Charles City Courthouse
New Market Heights | Four Mile Creek Trailhead | Randolph Landing | Richmond Riverfront
Photo illustration shows use of existing right of way for Charles City Courthouse
phase of the Virginia Capital Trail.
Charles City Courthouse Phase
This first phase of the trail developed in Charles City County will be an eight-mile segment from Charles City Courthouse to Virginia Commonwealth University's Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences. This phase will be built using the existing right of way.
In conjunction with this project, Charles City County is developing a visitor center and comfort station at the historic courthouse complex in a renovated clerk’s office.
The Virginia Department of Transportation , VCU's Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries are collaborating on an interpretive site at the western end of this phase.
Cost: $5 million
Status: Construction to begin mid-2007
Page last modified: Monday, February 12, 2007
