Check out VOF’s living laboratory and open-air museum in the backyard of our nation’s capital.
860,000
acres in Virginia protected.
4,000
miles of rivers and streams.
150
miles of hiking and biking trails.
2
acres conserved every hour since 1966.
Start here if you have open space that you would like to protect with help from the Virginia Outdoors Foundation.
Applications, forms, guidelines, templates, newsletters, and other publications.
See the dates and locations of upcoming meetings of the Board of Trustees and board committees.
Gouldin Farm, Caroline County The Conservation Fund and Virginia Outdoors Foundation have partnered to protect the 373-acre Gouldin Farm right outside U.S. Army Garrison Fort
VOF makes $1.825 million available from its Preservation Trust Fund and Get Outdoors grant programs in first half of FY22.
Projects include new parks, trails, outdoor classrooms, and community gardens in 25 counties and cities.
Virginia’s grassland habitats have suffered immense losses since European colonization. Some landowners are trying to reverse the trend.
Apple season is here, and Henley’s Orchard is back for another year of fall events and beautiful views of a working farm.
Funded by VOF through the Preservation Trust Fund, an addition to the Heyward Community Forest creates greater connectivity among conserved lands outside of Charlottesville.
With the equinox behind us, fall is finally here! While it is sometimes bittersweet to say goodbye to the warmth of summer, I for one
A team of our staff and volunteers recently found a patch of Eastern jack-O-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus olearius) while out performing trail work (kudos to PATC’s
When I got the call that I was the top choice to take over as Preserve Specialist at Bull Run Mountains, I’m not embarrassed to
