Meadowbrook Farm Bed & Breakfast is centrally located in Suffolk, VA, with easy access to the entire Tidewater area including Norfolk,  Williamsburg,  and  Virginia Beach.   Whether you enjoy the beach, golfing, water sports, hiking, biking, fresh or saltwater fishing, bird watching, shopping, museums, concerts, antiques, or perhaps you are a history buff, the Tidewater area offers endless opportunities within an hour’s drive of Meadowbrook.

In Suffolk:

• Lone Star Lakes (fishing, boating, canoeing, biking, nature walks)
• Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts
• Suffolk Seaboard Station Railroad Museum
• Cedar Hill Historic Cemetery
• Cedar Point and Nansemond River Golf Clubs
• Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
• Restaurants/fine dining

Just 10 minutes away, in Historic Smithfield:

• Isle Of Wight County Museum
• Antique shopping
• Restaurants/fine dining
• Cypress Creek Golf Club

From Smithfield, take a leisurely ride up Route 10 (Colonial Trail) where you will pass Bacon’s Castle,  Chippokes Plantation State Park, and Smith’s Fort Plantation.  Continuing west on Route 10, you will reach Surry, where you can take the free ferry across the James River to Jamestown, where you can stop to visit the Historic Jamestown Settlement, or continue to Williamsburg, where you will find multiple attractions:

• Colonial Williamsburg
• Williamsburg Winery
• Busch Gardens/Water Country
• Great Wolf Lodge
• Restaurants/fine dining  – including those in historic taverns
• Kingsmill Golf Club
• Williamsburg Outlet Malls and
• Williamsburg Antique Mall

You may continue your historic tour across the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown’s historic battlefields

Heading east from Meadowbrook

Also located within an easy 30 minutes is the Historic town of Portsmouth, where you can enjoy:

• Antique shopping
• Restaurants/fine dining
• Concerts at the NTELOS Pavilion

Just across the Elizabeth River from Portsmouth, is Norfolk, VA, home of the East Coast Navy Fleet. 

Downtown Norfolk opportunities include:

• Chrysler Museum of Fine Art
• Nauticus Museum with the Battleship Wisconsin
• Cruises on the Spirit of Norfolk
• Restaurants/fine dining
• Concerts at Scope Coliseum, Chrysler Hall, and Ted Constant Convocation Center
• Norfolk Tides baseball games at Harbor Park
• Norfolk Symphony

From Norfolk, you can venture 30 minutes further east to Virginia Beach, where you may enjoy:

• Fishing
• Surfing – or just relaxing on the beach
• Concerts at the Sandler Center or the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• Waterfront restaurants/fine dining
• Virginia Beach Convention Center events

Another destination within 30 minutes of Meadowbrook is Newport News. Attractions there include:

• James River Bridge Fishing Pier
• Virginia War Memorial Museum
• Mariner’s Museum
• Virginia Living Museum
• Concerts at the Ferguson Center for the Arts
• Restaurants/fine dining

Transition seamlessly from Newport News to Hampton, where you will find:

• Hampton Roads Convention Center events
• Concerts at the Hampton Coliseum
• Virginia Air & Space Museum
• Restaurants/fine dining

The Tidewater area is home to several large military installations, including Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Oceana Naval Air Station & Dam Neck Annex, joint bases at Little Creek and Langley/Fort Eustis, and U.S.Joint Forces Command in Suffolk. 

Higher education opportunities include Old Dominion University, Christopher Newport University, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) which is collocated with Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of the Kings’ Daughters. 

Other major medical facilities include the Norfolk Naval Hospital in Portsmouth,  VA Hospital in Hampton, Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News,  and Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk.  Other major area employers include Newport News Shipbuilding and Smithfield Foods.