Holliday Lake State Parkrecently conducted a Visitor Experience Planning meeting.
The goal was to identify programs, media, landscapes, and facilities that offer opportunities for guests to create their own personal memories of a place; and also to integrate interpretation into the total site operation to achieve the mission of the planning agency.
Visitor Experience Meeting for Holliday Lake State Park
The meetings included representatives from Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center over several days to discuss how to improve Holliday Lake State Park for future visitors.
Park Manager Robert Chapman and the Visitor Experience Meeting
The group also toured the park including a hike to the dam. The dam was built in the 1930s to form the lake to provide recreational opportunities in Central Virginia. It is one of the few that have a foot bridge crossing the span of the spillway.
Holliday Lake Dam with footpath over the spillway
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Location of the park: 2759 State Park Road, Appomattox, Virginia 24522. Access via State Route 24 between Appomattox and U.S. Route 60 and from Routes 626 (Holiday Lake Road), 640 (Wooldridge Road), and 692 (State Park Road).
Approximate drive times: Northern Virginia, three and a half hours; Richmond, two hours; Tidewater/Norfolk/Virginia Beach, four hours; Roanoke, two hours; Farmville, thirty minutes.