outdoor fun
Backpacker magazine and The Outdoor Foundation rank Harrisonburg in the top 15 cities in America to raise an outdoor child!Appalachian Trail
Harrisonburg, just 18 miles west of the trail, is an Appalachian Trail Community, committed to promoting and protecting the trail and frequently visited by by hikers and other nature-lovers.Welcome to the Shenandoah Valley!
Keep your eyes open, there is plenty to do: farmers markets, movie theaters, parks, skiing, arboretums, churches, events and festivals. Get to know the local business owners in our historic downtown. Read the local papers and posters to find out what’s going on in the area. With eight colleges within 50 miles of each other, student life is booming.
And if you like the outdoors, you can’t beat Harrisonburg; we’re less than an hour from two national forests and Shenandoah National Park!
City Life
- City of Harrisonburg
- Harrisonburg Tourism
- Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce
- Harrisonburg/Rockingham convention and visitors’ bureau
- GoLookOn.com
News and Entertainment
- Daily News Record on-line
- Nuevas Raices
- WHSV – TV 3 (Adelphia Cable channel 11)
- WSVA Talk Radio 55 AM
Recreation
EMU is less than an hour from two national forests and Shenandoah National Park
- Sledding around town!
- Appalachian Trail
- George Washington National Forest
- Shenandoah National Park
- Water Park at Massanutten
- Ski Massanutten
- Ski Wintergreen
- Virginia State Parks
Shenandoah Valley
- visitshenandoah.org
- shenandoahvalleyweb.com
- City of Staunton
- Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton
- City of Charlottesville
- Monticello
Churches
Accommodations
Mennonites
- What life is like on campus
- Third Way Cafe (an intro to Mennonites and Anabaptism)
- Mennonite Church USA