Buckingham County Recreation Department
Todd Shumaker
Director of Recreation
tcharlton@buckinghamcounty.virginia.gov
Tammy Charlton
Recreation Assistant
tcharlton@buckinghamcounty.virginia.gov
Purpose
The County Recreation Department has expanded to cover activities such as aerobics, yoga, basketball, swimming, softball, and many others. If you are interested in participating in any of these activities of have questions about offerings, please call 434.969.4242
Current Activities
Quickstart Tennis of Central Virginia, an all volunteer Community Tennis Assoc., and USTA Mid-atlantic will be holding a Quickstart Tennis training session on Saturday, February 20th from 9:00 am until noon and the Buckingham County Industrial Building, 164 Industrial Park Road, in Dillwyn. For more information about Quickstart please go to: www.quickstartcentral.org
If you'd like to attend, please email to reserve a spot @ quickstartcentral@comcast.net or call Todd Shumaker at 434-969-4242
Please click HERE to download the Buckingham County Recreation 2009 summer program guide..
Recreational Opportunities
Buckingham-Appomattox State Forest, with its 19,687 acres, offers outdoor recreation to local residents. Holiday Lake State Park is located within the state forest and offers camping, picnicking, swimming, boating and hiking within the park's boundaries. For more information, call (434) 248-6308.
James River State Park, with 1500 acres along the James River, offers picnicking, primitive camping, RV camping with a bathhouse, nearly 17 miles of trails for hiking, hiking and horseback riding, and three miles of river frontage with two boat ramps..James River State Park is located in the western tip of the county, across the river from Nelson County.For more information about this beautiful park or to make reservations for a specific activity at the park, please call (434) 933-4355.
Horsepen Lake Management Area operated by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, is situated near Rt. 60, off of Rt. 638. The area totals 3,065 acres of mostly forested land centered by an 18 acre lake, and offers fishing, hunting, boating, hiking and picnicking. For more information, please visit www.dgif.state.va.us/hunting/wma/horsepenlake.html.
