Suffolk Farmers' Market

The Suffolk Farmers’ Market season is open now through November 23, 2019, in the Suffolk Visitor Center Pavilion at 524 North Main Street. The weekly market is enjoyed by locals and visitors searching for fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, jams an...

Suffolk Grand Illumination

The 2019 Holiday Season officially begins in Suffolk on Friday, November 22, with the Suffolk Grand Illumination Ceremony at Market Park in Downtown Suffolk. The event rings in the holidays with the park opening at 6pm. Watch the 32' tree light up when th...

8th Annual Artisan Gift Fair

Start your holiday shopping at the Eighth Annual Suffolk Artisan Gift Fair. Held in conjunction with the Suffolk Farmers’ Market, the traditional outdoor holiday market features artisan-quality crafts, jewelry, soaps, fine art, candles, woodcraf...

{Re}Stored: Pop-Up Shops

Kick off the holiday season by strolling along Main Street on Small Business Saturday, November 30, 2019, to find handcrafted, homemade and eclectic gifts for you and those special people in your life. This Small Business Saturday, join dozens of merchant...

Movies at the Center: Mary Poppins Returns

The Suffolk Division of Tourism, in partnership with the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, is pleased to present Mary Poppins Returns, at the Suffolk Center on Saturday, December 14, 2019, at 2pm. This dazzling family-friendly film was a huge box office h...

Virginia Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Brass Show

The bold sounds of the Virginia Symphony Brass section ring in the holidays with a blast at the Suffolk Center on Friday, December 20, 2019, at 7pm! Experience the festive sounds of the season in a concert filled with wit, virtuosity, and the glorious mus...

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 ...