Virginia’s Coastal Plain contains 13 trail loops to explore seashores, barrier islands, cypress swamps, pine forest, and bayside salt marshes. Look for bald eagles and osprey, wintering geese and ducks, rails, shorebirds, and migrating songbirds. Additional wildlife includes marine mammals, turtles, lizards, snakes, and frogs, plus abundant butterflies and dragonflies.
Loops on this trail:
- Appomattox
- Eastern Shore
- Gloucester
- Lower Peninsula
- Mattaponi
- Mathews
- Northern Neck
- Plantation
- Richmond
- South Chesapeake
- Suffolk
- Seashore to Cypress
- Tidewater
