Discover Blacksburg
The coffee, restaurants, trails, shops and everyday places that make up a day in this town. 115 local places, each checked against its own website.
115
Local places in this guide
45
Downtown, a few blocks apart
10
Parks, trails and outdoor places
169
Acres of natural area in Heritage Park, the Town’s largest
Categories
Every place has its address, its own website, a map and the neighborhoods closest to it.
Map
Choose a color to see one kind of place. Choose it again to see them all.
Downtown Blacksburg
Main Street, College Avenue and Draper Road put 45 places from this guide within a third of a mile of the center of town, on and around the sixteen-block grid William Black laid out in 1798. Virginia Tech’s campus begins at the edge of it.
Parks and trails
A paved trail leaves from the library downtown. National forest trails begin a few miles west of town.
More parks and gardens, with straight-line miles from downtown
Know the town
History
From William Black’s sixteen squares in 1798 to a university town.
Read the historyReal estate
How the town grew, street by street and decade by decade.
Read the storyGrowth
Every development project before the Town, in plain English.
See what’s comingFAQ
This guide lists 115 local places in nine categories: coffee, bakeries and sweets (8), restaurants (36), breweries and bars (14), groceries and markets (7), shops (15), parks, trails and outdoors (10), arts, culture and entertainment (12), fitness and recreation (5), everyday services (8). Downtown alone has 45 of them within a few blocks, and the Huckleberry Trail, Pandapas Pond and the Cascades are a short walk or drive away.
Downtown runs along Main Street, College Avenue and Draper Road, beside the Virginia Tech campus. Its core is the sixteen-block grid laid out in 1798. The farmers market meets in Market Square Park at Roanoke Street and Draper Road.
A paved trail of almost 15 miles. The original section runs about 8.3 miles from the Blacksburg Library through the Virginia Tech campus to the Christiansburg Recreation Center, and Huckleberry North runs just over 5 miles to Heritage Park. With the trails that connect to it, the network passes 60 miles, according to the Friends of the Huckleberry Trail.
Pandapas Pond, about 3 miles west on US 460 in the Jefferson National Forest, has a one-mile loop around the pond and the Poverty Creek trails beyond it. The Cascades trail near Pembroke is a four-mile loop to a 66-foot waterfall, with a Forest Service day-use fee. In town, Heritage Park has 169 acres of natural area and the Ellett Valley Recreational Area has a one-mile loop.
The market is year-round and producer-only, with vendors from within 50 miles. Its website lists Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m., in Market Square Park downtown.
Eats Natural Foods, 708 N Main St; Kroger (South Main Street), 1322 S Main St; Oasis World Market, 1411 S Main St; Kroger (University City Boulevard), 903 University City Blvd; Food Lion (North Main Street), 1413 N Main St; Food Lion (Hethwood), 801 Hethwood Blvd. Eats Natural Foods and Oasis World Market are independent. The farmers market adds local produce, meat and baked goods twice a week.
Yes. LewisGale Hospital Montgomery is at 3700 S Main St, a 146-bed acute-care hospital with an emergency room. For walk-in urgent care, Carilion Clinic VelocityCare (Blacksburg) is at 215 Gilbert St. In an emergency, call 911.
We list local places people use every week, check each one against its own website or a public source, and leave out anything we cannot confirm is open. No business pays to be listed, and there are no sponsored spots. To suggest a place, use the contact page.
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Each place was checked against its own website or a public source (the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, the US Forest Service) on Oct 13, 2026. Locations from OpenStreetMap. Hours change, so check with the business before you go. Distances are straight-line miles.