Tours:

New River Tubing - www.newriverjunction.com/

Join us for a day and let your worries float away as you lounge on a tube floating the beautiful New River. Float down the river for about 1 mile and either shoot the rapids or pull off just before them. A bus runs all day long to bring you back to New River Junction for the next run, relax by the river, or have a picnic. We will provide transportation to and from the Junction, drinks, and a lunch.

Cascades Waterfall Hike - gilescounty.org/cascades.html

We’ll take you to the Cascades National Recreation Trail in the Jefferson National Forest for hiking, swimming and picnicking. Cascades Falls is located on the Little Stony Creek Valley. Little Stony Creek is a native trout stream (single barbed hook/artificial lures only). The Cascades National Recreation Trail ascends the gorge for two miles to the picturesque 66-foot Cascades Waterfall. It is a four-mile round trip of low to moderate difficulty. We will provide transportation to and from the trail, drinks, and a lunch.

SW Virginia Winery Tour/Tasting - www.virginiawines.org/wineries/

This tour takes you deep into the Blue Ridge Parkway as it slowly winds its way out of Virginia toward North Carolina. Four wineries make up the tour: Villa Appalaccia; Chateau Morrisette; Boundary Rock Farm, and AmRhein Wine Cellars. We will provide transportation, a designated driver, and lunch along the way.

Low Impact Development Tour

As a part of the 2008 American Ecological Engineer Society Meeting, a free LID tour is offered on Thursday, June 12, 2008, between 5:00 and 7:00 pm.

The purpose of this activity is to tour low impact development (LID) best management practices (BMPs) around the Virginia Tech campus and Town of Blacksburg, including bioretention, structural soil, and infiltration swales. A local development which was designed using LID principles will also be visited.

The field trip will be available only to the first 33 people who sign up and is free of charge. This tour is funded by a Water Quality Improvement Fund grant from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Participants will meet at Squires Hall near the bus stop on Alumni Mall, Thursday, June 12 at 4:45 pm.

Please contact Dr. Tess Wynn (Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech) at tesswynn@vt.edu for more information and to register for the field trip.

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