Virginia's Eastern Shore Places

Places to Explore

  • Cape Charles

    Cape Charles, established in the early 1880s as a railroad-ferry junction, quieted down considerably after its heyday, but in the past few years its very isolation has begun to attract people from farther... (more)

  • Chincoteague

    Just south of the Maryland-Virginia line, a few miles east of U.S. 13, the Virginia Eastern Shore's island resort town of Chincoteague (pronounced shin'-coh-teeg), which means "large stream or inlet,"—also... (more)