Old Tunnel in Lynchburg, VA

There are a lot of different things about Lynchburg that a lot of people don’t know about. A lot of people have lived here their whole lives and don’t know some of Lynchburg’s Best Kept secrets.

One of these secrets is the tunnels in Downtown Lynchburg. There is an old tunnel underneath Jefferson Street near Amazement Square. Many people pass through here every day, but very few have noticed this. The tunnel has been filled in.

There is so much history here and we still have old buildings and old tunnels from the past. There are places, such as Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, and history from the Battle of Lynchburg during the US Civil War. There’s so much to discover and explore!

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Rise Up Climbing

Are you looking for something fun and exciting to do in Lynchburg this summer? Come try Rise Up Climbing. It’s an indoor climbing gym in Lynchburg that has a lot of different programs going on such as summer camps, events, open climb, basic skills classes, birthday parties, private groups and much more!

The summer camps are for kids ages 9-14, and it will be a great experience. These kids will learn climbing,  and how to do basic movements and turns through climbing. Not only will they learn a lot about climbing, but they will learn about more important life lessons, such as team building, respect for teammates, and other such things that kids learn through sports.

The summer camps are a great way to get your kids off the couch and having them stay active, athletic, and involved. It will also be educational and they will learn different basic things about geology. So come, get ready for the fun! It’s going to be a great summer at Rise Up Climbing.

The three sessions are from July 12-16; July 26-30, and August 9-13 and you can register your child online at http://riseupclimbing.com/index.php/summer_camp/ . It’s a day camp that goes from 9:00-3:00 and is $190 per session. Members of Rise Up Climbing will have $20 discounted off the original price and siblings will have $25 discounted as well.

There will also be fun events going on this summer. The next event is Get Outdoors 3: New River Weekend, which will be June 19-20th. This place has some of the best stone in the country and it will be a fun trip!

There are also open climb classes Friday 4-7 and Saturday 2-4. There is no pre-registration and it costs $4. There are staff there who help you learn how to climb and help those who are new.

The basic skills classes are Mondays and Fridays 7-9 and Saturdays 1-3. Pre-registration is needed for these classes and you must be at least 14 years of age. These classes teach you the safety that you will need when climbing on your own. You will learn how to put on a harness, tie yourself into a rope, and belay for a partner. These classes are $20 for members and $25 for non-members.

Does your child have a birthday coming up? Rise Up Climbing has fun birthday parties, so come celebrate.  It will be a lot of fun where the kids can climb in the gym and afterwards play in the party room. The invitations can even be downloaded online. You need to pre-register to have a birthday party and the cost is $18 for members and $20 for non-members. So come, and have fun!

Do you want to meet here after a business meeting? Are you looking for something to do with a group of your friends? Whether kid, teen, or adult, Rise Up Climbing has private groups, where the staff can teach you the skills you are learning, or can teach you how to climb.  Pre-registration is needed and the group needs to be at least 6 people.

Rise Up Climbing also has a competitive team called Team Rise Up for climbers who would like to advance their skills.

There are also classes that work on specific skills such as, Wall Contact and Sequencing, Turning, Balance and Movement, Movements for steeper walls, Personalized Training, On-sight and Redpoint Tactics, and Sport Leading. These classes are $35 for members and $75 for non-members.

It’s important for kids to stay active and stay healthy and Rise Up Climbing can not only accomplish that, but can make it fun for kids to learn how to climb. This is an opportunity for kids to learn a new sport and to have fun. Their location is 1225 Church St. Lynchburg, VA 24504 and their phone number is (434) 845-7625. So, come and try it out today!

A Perfect Saturday with a Trip Downtown

My favorite date day with my husband is a planned Saturday morning downtown.

Don’t linger around your house drinking coffee on a lovely sunny morning in Lynchburg! If you do, you’ll be missing out on something that NO big city or destination location has… an easily accessible, quaint, enjoyable morning spent in downtown Lynchburg.

First you need to go early. Remember the farmers get there early and so should you. Not only is the morning just lovely with the coolness of the dew not yet overpowered by the hot sun of summer that is due to arrive around 11am, it’s just an atmosphere perfect for this “field trip” let’s call it.

We greet the farmers and ogle at all the produce that’s available, everything imaginable, at this point you start envisioning your grandmothers kitchen with counter tops of hot jars ready and waiting a variety of vegetables, hot baths for jars, salts and spices, even though you might currently live in a two bedroom apartment something nostalgic comes over you when your around all this fresh produce.

Breakfast is made up of everything temping a breakfast can offer, breads, coffee, cornbread, pudding, pies, cakes, eggs and bacon, everything wonderful. Now, take your coffee and make sure you get a cup with a lid…and head down the street, since you’ve seen all the produce your now inspired that you ARE secretly a farmer and that you should be tilling soil of some kind, even if it’s a pot on your balcony or a dug up front lawn.

The Farmers Seed and Feed is a great store for that, you feel like you’ve stepped back in a very different time in Lynchburg…this fabulous long standing building is a Lynchburg gem.

At this point your only problem is where you put all the produce, breads, flowers, coffee with the lid etc. I recommend a baby carriage minus the baby. The quaint stores along Lynchburg’s Main Street and side streets could occupy your entire day, for me personally I know my husband has sent out a search party only to find me at Main Streets Estate Specialist digging through the piles of books, antiques and oddities.

Finally, after a lovely lunch at one of the many original locally owned bistro’s, café’s , coffee shops etc. you stagger home well after 2pm to crash only to get revitalized by unpacking your goodies that you purchased that day…time to invite the friends over? Break out the mason jars and freezer bags? Where’s gramma when you need her?

Laurie Gulluscio, Retail Merchants Association of Lynchburg

Community Market

If I could come to the downtown Lynchburg Community Market every weekend, I would. The outdoor vendors offer a variety of fresh, organic and home grown vegetables – and the indoor vendors offer both home baked goods like bread, pies, chocolates and wine, and home made goods like wooden crafts and jewelry.

If you buy goods from the inside gallery, you may do so at the payment kiosk on the far wall on the opposite side of the baked goods. The gallery also rents space for businesses like Health Nut Nutrition and a couple of restaurants.

The members of the Artist Co-Op are based on a monthly fee, hours worked in the store and amount of proceeds that go towards the market.

One business that stands out to me is ‘Chocolates R Us’ on the near side of the inside market. They have chocolate with candy bits inside that taste like coffee, orange, and many others. They also offer chocolate gifts like tool-set chocolates and other fun molds.

To get more information on the market, go to the City of Lynchburg website >

Downtown Pizza

By Eric Hunter

Downtown Lynchburg is becoming the first area I choose to go to when going out to eat. It is exciting to continually see the new restaurants and shops coming to the area. On Wednesday, I ate out for lunch and tried Downtown Pizza, which is on Main Street next to Baby B’s.

Going in, you have Bob Marley playing, which gives you an automatic relaxed feeling. We ordered the pesto pizza, and it was the best I have had in a while. The crust is out standing. When complimenting them about how good it was, they mentioned that they put a lot of work into perfecting it.

In addition to the great whole pizzas you can get, they have lunch specials, which offer one or two slices and a drink for a very reasonable price.

For anyone wanting pizza, I recommend Downtown Pizza.

Annual Antique Rose Festival

This Mother’s Day get the “mom” in your life a rare, old-fashioned vintage rose at the 14th Annual Antique Rose Festival.

Yes, an antique rose festival… you heard right.

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Special pre-sale of roses May 3–8.

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The Lost 10th Street Lynchburg Va

Up until the 1920’s most of Lynchburg’s streets were dirt tracks.    During the rain they were seas of mud and during periods of drought everything would be covered with red dirt.

Slowly the main streets were paved.   First they were layered with sand, then covered with a base of crushed stone upon which cobbles or rough-cut stones were laid without mortar so as to absorb the excessive moisture.

Hidden in the heart of downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, between Church Street and Court Street, lies Tenth Street – a relic surviving from the middle of the 1800’s.  In the 1940’s the city thought the street was too steep and too narrow to pave with expensive asphalt.   Thus it became an un-restored link to the past.

 

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