Landmarks & venues
Where Richmond Holds Things Outdoors
Ten places around the metro that run outdoor events every season — each with its own access constraints, and each one we deliver into.
Open Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm · delivery across the Richmond metro
Belle Isle
An island in the middle of the James, reached by a footbridge slung under the Lee Bridge, with about three miles of trail, a flooded granite quarry and the flat sunning rocks out at the rapids.
James River Park System, City of Richmond
Carytown
Nine blocks of West Cary Street between Thompson and Arthur Ashe Boulevard — roughly 230 independent shops and restaurants with the 1928 Byrd Theatre at the center of it.
City of Richmond
Hollywood Cemetery
A hundred and thirty-five acres of rolling Victorian cemetery on the bluff above the Hollywood rapids, opened in 1849, with two U.S. presidents buried in it.
Oregon Hill, City of Richmond
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
More than fifty acres of themed gardens on Lakeside Avenue around a domed classical conservatory, with a children’s garden, a rose garden and a cherry walk.
Lakeside, Henrico County
Maymont
A hundred-acre Gilded Age estate on the north bank of the James — the 1893 mansion, an Italian garden, a Japanese garden with a waterfall, a children’s farm and wildlife habitats.
Byrd Park area, City of Richmond
Science Museum of Virginia
The old 1919 Broad Street Station, a domed Beaux-Arts railroad terminal, with a landscaped lawn out front that works as a public park and an event space.
West Broad Street, City of Richmond
St. John’s Episcopal Church
The oldest church building in Richmond, built in 1741 at 24th and Broad, where Patrick Henry made the liberty-or-death speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775.
Church Hill, City of Richmond
The Virginia State Capitol
Jefferson’s Roman-revival capitol, first occupied in 1788 and still in continuous legislative use, standing in twelve acres of Capitol Square with the Bell Tower and the Executive Mansion.
Capitol Square, City of Richmond
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
One of the country’s largest comprehensive art museums, on Arthur Ashe Boulevard, with a sculpture garden and a broad lawn fronting Grove Avenue that carries most of the outdoor programming.
Museum District, City of Richmond
The White House of the Confederacy
An 1818 mansion at 12th and Clay in Court End, now part of the American Civil War Museum and surrounded by the VCU medical campus.
Court End, City of Richmond