When you live in a city sometimes you overlook all the great things around you. This list will help open your eyes to Richmond, Virginia and what it has to offer. I wanted to keep it simple and easy to look at so you won’t find any long explanations for each item.

1. Pony Pasture
2. Maymont Park
3. White Water Rafting
4. Historic Carytown
5. Byrd Theater
6. Hollywood Cemetery
7. Belle Isle
8. Brown’s Island
9. Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
10. Stony Point Fashion Park
11. Short Pump Town Center
12. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
13. Brunch at Millie’s
14. Mountain Bike Buttermilk Trails
15. G-Force Go Carts
16. Richmond Flying Squirrels Baseball Game
17. Tubing on the James
18. Water sports on the River
19. Fishing
20. Canal Walk
21. City Hall Observation Deck
22. Capitol Square and The Virginia State Capitol
23. The Jefferson Hotel
24. Shamrock The Block (March)
25. Irish Festival (March)
26. French Film Festival (March)
27. Chili Cookoff (April)
28. Lebanese Festival (May)
29. Columbia Muddy Buddy Richmond (May)
30. James River Wine Festival (May)
31. Beer, Wine and Food Festival (May)
32. Strawberry Hill Races (May)
33. Dominion Riverrocks (May)
34. Friday Cheers (May-June)
35. Groovin’ in the Gardens (May-August)
36. Innsbrook After Hours (May-August)
37. Greek Festival (June)
38. Central Virginia Wine Festival (June)
39. Broad Appetit Festival (June)
40. Vegetarian Festival (June)
41. Jumpin’ (Thursdays in June)
42. Beer, Bourbon and BBQ (June)
43. Rivercity Beerfest (June)
44. Watermelon Festival (August)
45. Folk Festival (October)
46. Italian Festival (October)
47. Carytown Food & Wine Festival (October)
48. Scarytown (October 30-31)
49. Carytown Christmas (December)
50. NASCAR
51. Golf
52. Suntrust Marathon / Ntellos 8k
53. Ukrops Monument 10k
54. Richmond Half Marathon
55. Laser Tag
56. Ice Skating
57. Concert at The National
58. RVALUTION
59. Comedy at Funny Bone
60. Walk Monument Avenue in The Fan
61. Day trip to Great Wolf Lodge Water Park
62. Kings Dominion
63. Bush Gardens
64. The Boathouse at Rocket’s Landing
65. Bogey’s Sports Park
66. Bowling
67. Disc Golf at U of R, Gilley, Dorey or Bryan Park
68. Restaurant patio drinking
69. Virginia Holocaust Museum
70. Grand Illumination Downtown
71. River City Sports & Social Club (Dodgeball, Kickball, Flag Football, Softball, etc)
72. Science Museum
73. Children’s Museum
74. Arena League Football
75. Curling
76. Friday’s at Sunset
77. Symphony at Center Stage
78. Fish for American Shad in April on the James
79. Xterra Games
80. First Friday Art Walk
81. Innsbrook After Hours
82. IMAX movie at Science Museum
83. Arts in the Park
84. St. John’s Church
85. Edgar Allen Poe Museum
86. Virginia War Memorial
87. Murder Mystery Dinner Theater
88. Dogwood Dell
89. Hippodrome Theater
90. Richard Petty Driving Experience
91. Jefferson Hotel’s Annual Tree Lighting
92. Landmark Theater
93. Mamma Zu’s
94. 1st call at 3rd Street Diner
95. Godfrey’s Brunch
96. The Boathouse at Sunday Park
97. Dragon Boat Races (July)
98. Richmond Zoo
99. The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
100. Pocahontas State Park
101. Ashland Berry Farm, Pumpkin Patch, Haunted House, Hay Ride
102. Virginia State Fair
103. World Beer Festival – Browns Island Saturday June 18, 2011
104. Circus
105. RVA Fashion Week
106. Bartenders Ball
107. Easter Parade on Broad Street
108. VCU Basketball Game
109. Bar Crawl on To The Bottom And Back Bus
110. Texas Beach
111. Walking Ghost Tours
112. Find the RVA Polar Bear statue and take a picture
113. Darts (Capital Ale Downtown)
114. Putt Putt
115. Driving Range (Patterson Sports Park, Bogey’s Sports Park, First Tee)
116. Peak Experience
117. YMCA Rock Wall (Patterson Avenue)
118. Batting Cage
119. The Farmer’s Market at St. Stephen’s Church
120. South of the James (SOJA) Farmer’s Market
121. 17th Street Farmers Market
122. The Modlin Center for the Arts
123. Richmond Kickers Soccer
124. Capital Ale House Music Hall
125. Concerts at the Richmond Coliseum
126. Music at The Camel
127. Paintball
128. Challenge Discovery (Every Friday)
129. Barksdale Theatre
130. Firehouse Theatre
131. Cobblestones Park
132. Pedal Boats at Byrd Park
133. Mise En Place Cooking School
134. Sports Backers Events
135. Concert at Hat Factory