Getting Outdoors - Scott County, Virginia Public Schools

What is the Virginia
Is For
Students Tour?
Virginia Is For Students is an
educational and adventure touring
program that focuses on the recreational
and historical opportunities offered
throughout our state. Working with
Virginia SOLs, it offers rising
Sophomores and Juniors a chance to
visit parts of the state they may have
never seen, while engaging them in
activities that can make a lasting
impression. The Tour is run by the Cove
Ridge Center of Natural Tunnel State
Park, and is only offered to a total of 16
students within Scott, Lee, and Wise
Counties and the City of Norton.
In previous years, the Tour has visited
such sites as Washington, D.C., Harpers
Ferry, and Chincoteague, in addition to
many wonderful Virginia State Parks!
Currently in it’s 10th year, the 2013
Virginia Is For Students Tour is focusing
on history, geology, and biology of
Virginia. This year the students will
have the opportunity to visit a navel
ship, explore the eastern shore, while
getting outdoors in several Virginia
State Parks!
Trip Sponsors:
Cove Ridge Foundation
and Advisory Board
&
Joy Mining Manufacturing, Duffield, VA.
(through Joy Global Foundation, Inc.)
Getting
Outdoors
Contacts:
Megan France
Education Specialist
Natural Tunnel State Park
Phone: (276) 940-1643
E-mail: megan.france@dcr.virginia.gov
Gretchen Cope
Administrative & Office Specialist II
Cove Ridge Center
Phone: (276) 940-2696
E-mail: gretchen.cope@dcr.virginia.gov
Here is what you’ll get
Lodging and Accommodations
in just 7 exciting days!
Natural Tunnel State Park
Sky Meadows State Park: astronomy
program provided by a few NASA
Volunteers
Luray Caverns: view what the underground world looks like over 15
million year ago.
Shenandoah State Park
Westmoreland State Park
First Landing State Park
Fairy Stone State Park
Trip Cost:
Westmoreland State Park: paddle the
Potomac River looking for fossils
Includes all Programs, Sites,
Lodging, Food, & Transportation
First Landing State Park: experience
crabbing and swim in the ocean
$320 per student
Nauticus: tour a Naval Ship and take
a cruise on a Naval Base
Fairy Stone State Park: search for
Fairy Stones
Grayson Highlands State Park: Hike
the AT and view the wild ponies
Cove Ridge Foundation & Joy
Mining Manufacturing contribution $160/per student
Final Cost Per Student: $160