Richmond, Virginia: The Best Things to Do in the City!
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- Richmond, Virginia: The Best Things to Do in the City!
From what I hear from fellow travelers, Richmond isn't high on many lists of places to see in the U.S., but we believe Richmond is highly underrated.
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We drove 2 hours north to spend the day in Richmond, and see for ourselves just what great things this city had to offer. We tried to fit a lot of things to do in just one day. Check out a few the links here in the description to find out more about the locations.
Richmond is quickly transforming into a cultural hotspot, and great restaurants are popping up every week!
We dropped a pin to the location of the Pipeline Trial for anyone confused like we were. After walking down E. Canal St., we turned onto Virginia St. There is a small parking lot at the end of the road where you can park, and walk a short distance to the entrance.
Going to also include the latitude and longitude here:
Latitude: 37.532587 Longitude: -77.434159
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I was born and grew up in Richmond in the 80s and 90s. My family left and moved to DC in 2001 right before 9/11. I live out west now in Denver Colorado but I miss the east coast. My mom still lives in Richmond, the city has changed and become so much more fun and enjoyable
My hometown! You did a awesome job bro!
Thank you. We tried to stay true to the city. Glad you enjoyed it. It would be awesome if you shared it. Help the video grow
I was born and raised in Richmond and lived there most of my life. Living there is a fishbowl but kudos to the visitors who thinks our city is great. 👍
Right on
Absolutely beautiful city, Richmond, San Antonio and Denver have the same air, it's a cool factor 🇺🇸👍
You really have a beautiful city, I been all over and Richmond VA
We haven't been to Denver yet but I can see what you mean with San Antonio
@@TheDetourDuo Trust me, I can't explain it buts a cool feeling, honorable mentions San Francisco before 2014, Bisbee, AZ, Stanton. VA, and Vegas.
I'm from the 804 and now live in the 757. Maymont Park was the go-to for family outings and school field trips growing up. Such a beautiful place. Nice video.
Thank you! Where are you in the 757?
@@TheDetourDuo Va Beach
A beautiful city variety of restaurants and parks . If you're into bike riding has many bike lanes .
Yes, true
I recently moved here from Virginia Beach- Still learning my way around.
Just came from Virginia beach actually! We live in Norfolk. First time we visited Richmond we admittedly didn't love it, but after being there three times now we both agree that there's really a lot to explore. Seeing all of Maymont can take up a weekend alone.
Is Richmond better than Virginia Beach?
I'd say they both have things that make them great. If you're a person that likes the beach then VA beach is better. But if you're a person that likes big city life then you'll lean more towards Richmond. Personally lean towards Richmond because it's easier to travel up north where most of my family lives
Live in Chesterfield, just south of Richmond, could go there in maybe 10 minutes by car, but I've almost completely ignored it most of my life. Apart from one interview, and an instance I tried to explore the city (at rush hour, and thus got pushed back out onto a toll road by traffic) I've gone there less than 10 times in my almost 30 years here, and videos like this make me think that's a shame. The shops and community to look appealing, but as a suburban boi, I don't much know how you go about driving in and parking in a city like this, nor where to go once I'm on foot. Glad to have at least a few more examples.
Thank you 2 4 showing the world my city in good light
Thanks for watching. Appreciate you liking the video.
richmond is amazing! I love living here.
really underrated honestly
This is a dope vignette of our fair city! ❤️
Thank you!
BTW we love your creativity in your videos from the transitions to the editing its all so dope!! Quickly becoming one of our favorite duo's on CZcams! ❤
Oh wow thank you! I got the transitions from watching a lot of IZ Harris videos. My YT goal is to make a travel film as good as Sam Kolder or Ben TK, but they put a massive amount of time into editing and effects. I do think we're finally getting more comfortable in front of the camera so it's less awkward.
You guys did a great job showcasing the gems of rva and in such beautifully made video! I’m glad you showed the murals and street art
Thank you so much! Glad that you liked it. When we make these videos we're always nervous that were going to miss an important part of the city and everyone living there is going to be angry with us.
Very well done. We are moving from Miami to RVA in Sept and cannot wait. Always learn about more things to do and see each time we make it there.
Best of luck! Last time we were in RVA we really enjoyed it. That's a big move from Miami. Any Miami recommendations? We're thinking about heading down there at the end of the month.
@@TheDetourDuo Congratulations!!!! Moving in Miami is a great idea! Moved recently myself. Denis Smykalov from Wolsen Real Estate helped me get settled
Love this!!!!!! Maymont is beautiful! I always recommend that Park to anyone visiting Richmond. Those margaritas look good!! I'm glad y'all enjoyed! Editing is 🔥🔥🔥!!!
Thank you for the recommendations! We had a great time for just a day trip. Pollen was crazy that day so next time we drive up were definitely bringing extra allergy meds for Tony
@@TheDetourDuo 😂Hopefully by then the pollen has disappeared. Looks like y'all had fun! I'll be in Virginia Beach for my niece's graduation in June. Might hit up the strip while I'm there and grab an icecream cone😍
It was so bad. Not the worst we've seen but you know when you can just see a ton of it flying around you're not in for a good day. 🤣. Take awesome pictures if you go to the sweet spot. That's our favorite spot on the strip.
@@TheDetourDuo I definitely will! 💕Where's your next stop? Have you been to Charlottesville?
We went on a quick tour and then apple picking last fall when we started our channel. czcams.com/video/bHGW4-ozDKw/video.html
YOUR VLOGS ARE SO WELL MADE!! The editing is incredible - thumbs up x10👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you so much!!
Born and raised in Richmond Va❤❤
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I never knew Richmond,Virginia had All these places.
Thank you SO much for the Gorge info. It was the highlight of our trip! (We also enjoyed the Maymont Mansion)
That’s great to hear!! Happy we could help!
This is great! Very well done. I've only ever driven through Richmond. I guess next time I should stop and visit.
You should! And if you love outdoors, which it seems you do, Va has great stops, especially the western and southern parts of Virginia, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Great vlog guys! Your drone shots are really nice 😀 And those frozen margaritas look delicious!
Thank you guys so much! The Frozen margarita might be the drink of choice on any vacation travel from now on.
Great job‼️‼️ Proud to be from Richmond.
Thank you!
Wow that place looks so amazing, Those frozen margaritas!! YUM! Such great editing guys, You guys deserves way more subs! New sub here!
Thank you! The margaritas were so good. Kinda want one right now actually. It's 95 degrees here today.
I missed the Triangle Park area close to Monument Ave. That's where I grew up in the 40's and 50's. Missed Broad Street. Missed the Museum of Fine Arts and the Russian jeweled egg collection. Once had a picnic in Hollywood cemetery, so beautiful.
sounds like you've lived a full life!
Great editing! Your vlogs are amazing!
Thank you so much!
Richmond is a beautiful City however you shown it as more beautiful than it looks very good video.. I am living in Richmond but don’t know about this pipe line trail.. Today I searched a lot and reached there it’s really a hidden wonderland.. Thanks for showing it..
Thanks for watching! Feel free to share the video if you know of others who would find the trail interesting
Y’all definitely did my city justice. Thank you for sharing this video. I was born here and some of those places I actually haven’t even been myself. Looking forward to exploring this summer for sure. You never know what you have in your backyard. 💕✨
Thank you! Means everything that people feel like we did it justice. Honestly felt like there was a lot more we could have seen with more time. But that's exactly how we feel down here in Norfolk. You never know until you get out and try and explore. Which spots haven't you been to?
Awesome footage and great flow to the video. Subbed!
Thank you. Always looking for ways to improve!
Great video! Ive been here for 3 years been trying to explore deeper into the area thanks
You're welcome. Hope you find some new spots to check out. If you find anything cool we missed let us know!
Love the edits and transitions!
Thank you!
Those frozen margaritas looked amazing!! 😍
taste as good as they looked!
Soo much to unpack in this video!!! We had NO IDEA that Richmond was so DOPE!!!! We have been planning a trip to Morgantown, WV but now are going to set up a few days to check out Richmond on the way home!
Oh Morgantown is fun. We've been trying to plan out how to make our way that way for Morgantown and new river gorge. Honestly feel like you have to go to Richmond at the right time. We stopped through in Feb when it was cold and nothing was colorful and though meh. But coming back in the spring/summer it gets live! So happy we gave it another shot
This was a great video. Well edited. Well done
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
So awesome for you to do this video for RVA! We Preshate it!!!! Guitar bring y’all bikes the next time to hit the Cap City Trails and hit up Scott’s Addition!!! Awesome video!!!!
Thank you! Next time we come up we're definitely planning on hitting a couple trails and taking a nice raft ride down the James. Scott Additions. Going to remember that!
What a lovely video@channel,please stay safe debs xx.
thank you!
I so appreciate this video!!!! I’m going to visit my dad and he lives 20 mins away in henrico and I wanted to see what Richmond had to offer 🙌🙌🙌
Thank you! It's becoming a bit of a hot spot for artistic minded like people. Definitely check out as much as you can!
New subscriber! Great video, beautiful weather. Thanks for sharing. Stay connected!
Hi! Welcome. Thank you for the kind words!
HOME SWEET HOME, I love seeing videos of my hometown
Thank you. What did you think of the video?
@@TheDetourDuo it was awesome!!!!!!
Thank you! So good to hear. Lot of hours of editing. Feel free to share it with other people you think might enjoy it!
I miss RVA. Really great video work. Wish more people knew about RVA!
Thank you. That's the hope with our video. We had the same thoughts initially as a lot of people do. Thinking there wasn't much to do in RVA, but we were so wrong! Hopefully this video grows and gets shared out so more people can learn about how great an area it is!
Mi esposa y yo vamos al virginia la semana proxima, gracias chicos por le video, ya se que ver y hacer en Richnond! KPOS!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you!
The editing is so good!
Thank you!
Nice, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Estuve allí!! Amo Richmond!!
Same here!
Great video highlighting the city. The estate you visited had soo much to see.
All of the food looked delicious (and those frozen margaritas YUM!)
Frozen margs are the highlight of any trip!
@@TheDetourDuo yes *cheers* :)
Great video my friend! 🙂👍 Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for sharing, your video is very good, I love it. Nice to meet you. Wish you happiness and success in life💛💚💙.💜💖
Thank you. Much success to you as well
From North Carolina. Richmond and Virginia is also home. Good job!
Thank you!!
Just amazing to see how something built to honor the leader of something so destructive has become the rallying point for the cause of love, the enemy of destruction.
Its such a beautiful area! Great video once again. New Sub here. - Jenn
Thanks for the sub! Richmond is an underrated gem. It admittedly took us a little bit to really explore the area.
Love this!! I’m currently editing my video on Richmond in London but have to admit there’s more to do in your Richmond in VA 😂🙌🏼
Also can I just say your editing style and videography is amazing, your channel is gonna BLOW UP!! New Subbie 💖🙌🏼
Thank you! Richmond in London is gorgeous though! One of Sara's favorite places on earth is London. We need to make a trip over there at some point.
Been patiently waiting for the channel to take off. Thank you for this positive energy. Excited to see your Richmond video when it's posted.
@@TheDetourDuo check out the similar view in Richmond Hill Park, above the Thames River, London UK, to the one in Church Hill, Richmond Virginia above the James River.
Love the intro and drone shots!! That place looks beautiful. We would have considered visiting. It it was for you video. I love the trail, sounds like fun. Wow you can white water raft there to, awesome. The views and the art work are beautiful. Are you staying there a few night or is it a day trip? How many days you recommend?
You should give it a visit! We just went for a day trip and fit in a lot in just that day. Also missed a lot too. I think a weekend would be enough to see a good deal of the city. Get a chance to visit a bunch of restaurants and shops and still have time to go places like Maymont. We only showed the gardens, but you could spend at least half a day there alone it's so huge. If you want to hit the river I'd dedicate a few hrs to that as well.
Thanks for all the tips 😊
Wow yeah I’m not to far from here !!! I definitely have to make the trip!!!!!
Yeah you should. Can definitely see you having a good time!
Richmond is absolutely gorgeous 🇺🇸👍, nice video
Agreed! Thank you!
I heard that BMore accent come out at about 0:15 lol...great video.
haha yeah it slips out from time to time. It's the Os that get me!
I’m from Richmond born and raised I’m gonna miss this place when I move
Where are you moving to?
super fun!
Agreed!
We live across the river in Chesterfield and when our family and friends visit they want us to take them to Richmond.
Show them our video and ask them what spots they want to see 😉
Wonderful sharing dear friend 💐👍👍
Thank you for watching!
I love the river for sure
I would like to raft down the river one day soon
Oh wow that marg looks so good - almost like marg ice cream 😂
It basically was! Kinda like a when you get a slushy from a 7 eleven and add alcohol to it in the summer time. It was so good.
Byrd Theater Carytown. Also, there’s a different Hill up Broad Street into Church Hill that overlooks the James River and the view is virtually identical to one in Richmond, London England that overlooks the Thames River.That’s how Richmond Virginia got its name in the 1700’s.
we knew how Richmond got its name, and some of the similarities, but we had no idea that were that identical . Always nice to learn something new. Thank you.
WOW
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Virginia has some really fun towns to visit. Just a short drive from Richmond is another location we feel is worth a trip: czcams.com/video/pKF6GYoZ6CA/video.html
Robert E Lee statue is gone. Removed this morning
We heard.
Visit the Maggie Walker center and black history and cultural museums in the historic Jackson Ward. Also there the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Arthur Jr. Blvd
great recommendations. Thanks for posting this
People are sleeping on our amazing city!! Thank you VCU for being the catalyst for change for RVA!!!
We agree!
0:17 dope
Much appreciated!!
2:18 I' do this in Richmond every year😃
The pipeline trail or the rapids?
@@TheDetourDuo The rapids. Me and some friends of mine try to do it every summer. Never been on the pipeline trail, though. I definitely have to check that out
@@jordant889 very cool. Only done it once. Might try and do it more and work up to more tricky rapids. It's a nice rush
Great footage...you guys have to be using a drone.
Yup!
Only saying this because you're such a small channel, but Joe's Inn in the Fan has the best happy hour and food (3 dollar drafts and 2 dollar high balls).
Thank you for the recommendation
best
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Which Flavor Frozen Margaritas and is it alone 2 hour drive worth? hmmm
I think it was lime. Don't remember the other flavor they had, but lime was the only one they were selling at the time. Def worth a trip unless some other place serves them. We haven't found another yet though.
I'm from Petersburg Virginia 20 miles to the south
Would have guessed you were from North Carolina
@@TheDetourDuo I am. I was raised in both, Petersburg is 45 mins from the NC border.
Sorry Tony but Sarah stole this video with her "but you can look at me," line. And her reaction to the frozen marg was priceless!!!
She's definitely the on camera personality. I'm just the guy behind the scenes 🤣
@@TheDetourDuo Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 Looks like a nice place. I can't remember if I've ever driven thru there or not. Congrats on getting to 400! You'll be at 1k in no time!
Thank you! It's a grind. You should do an east coast, dash cam road trip. Or a little mini series trip down route 66.
@@TheDetourDuo I would love to do that!!! But I'll need CZcams to start paying some of the gas money first! Lol.
I hear you on that!
Oh, and any place with cats on the wall...yes!
you're going to love when we go to Asheville in a few weeks. They have a bunch of cat statues!
If they would finally reopen back the city hall observation deck that would also be another great spot it's free and over looks the whole city but if you still insist on seeing the city from high up three great spots starting from my fave to good is kabana rooftop bar quirk hotel RT and the graduate hotel RT
We stayed and had drinks at the graduate. Fun spot
Never would’ve thought there was soo much to do in Richmond!
Right! Kind of underrated spot. We went there in passing in February and thought it was ok, but we came back in the warmer months and had a lot of fun
Is that an Into the AM shirt?
great eye! Sure is!
I went on a 911 call on this trail as EMT not fun walking to get to someone carrying all that equipment
No, that doesn't sound fun at all. Climbing up and down must have been tough
Richmond is the best! It's hard to beat a huge river running through the city along with the art, mural and culture. I love seeing all the confederate monuments getting removed and taken down, but there is also something satisfying and encouraging about seeing all the positive messages that have been painted over top of that one as well, and the fact that the spot is being used for activism. Very cool! Enjoyed this one guys, one of both mine and Lauren's favorite cities in the US!
Thank you! If we spent more than a day we would have totally went rafting down the James river. That looked like a lot of fun. We were surprised it was such a cultural melting pot. Kind of glad they left the Lee statue up because it sends a strong message of change
👀 Richmond VA
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I live in blackstone Virginia
Cool!
Rva gang wya?
We're down in Va Beach, but we work a lot with Virginia Tourism and they have us travel to Rva a bunch
Statue gone now 😁
Indeed it is!
live 30 mins from there
oh cool. what area?
@@TheDetourDuo Hopewell 😁
you never showed exactly how to get to the pipeline
Yes, you're absolutely right. We did fail to mention it in the video, but in the description we walk through how we got there for anyone interested.
The best kept secret city in the USA ever Richmond is like having the best of all worlds 🌎 I call it the melting pot of the mid Atlantic perfect location right in the middle of everything north, south ,east and west extremely diverse, Hispanic, Hindu, african, Asian, Caucasian African American, you name it has all races living there so cultural so much to see explore more restaurants then days of the year and oh my such a walkable city excellent transportation system downtown the pulse takes you all around runs every 10 to 15 min The Main street train station u can hop on downtown and take a ride up to Dc our Nation capital right up the road ,downtown is amazing from broad street to carytown to the fan distric, to Scott's Addition row houses like up north restaurants on every corner in the Fan district, boutiques and quaint stores line Carytown I could go on and on I love ❤️ RVA and I love your video of Rva thanks for sharing 👍 ❤️.
Thanks for watching. Couldn't have said it better. Love that Richmond is so central to everything!
@@TheDetourDuo Yes it is, awesome video I have subscribed can't wait to follow you on your journey keep up the good work ❤️ 💕 💖 .
@@humble9098 thank you!!
I'm confused, is virginia racist or not.. I would move there but..confused
Best thing I can tell you is do your research. Every state along the coast and in the south has a deeply rooted in a history of racism. What I will tell you is Va is trying to be progressive. Especially in areas like Richmond, Norfolk, and Va Beach.
🏍️ Oh yeah. The r word. It's what America is all about now. Now it's the first issue we bring up.
You want a better Richmond city? Then you need a union in city hall. Why? The workers are not the problem. Bad management creates bad emoyees and the current solution is love it or leave it or get pushed out. No, to have an actual change the members of management and human resources need to change.
That sounds like something to bring to a city representative
@@TheDetourDuo city representatives broke the city to suit their purpose. No city representative listens - none. Thry pretend but don't. A sidewalk repair was put in over 10 years ago several times. Still never repaired but receives plenty of lies. So ?
Richmond Virginia has a lot of crime watch your back
thanks for the heads up
The best thing to do in Richmond : Leave.
Thanks for commenting!
This was posted nearly 2 years ago. We have a new Mayor that turned this city on it's head in that small amount of time. Just keep heading north or south on 95....not worth the stop in one of the worst managed cities on the east coast. SHAMEFUL
Interesting
I am here now and I heard that same thing from many people. Too bad.
I live there and it’s boring it’s not cool so you need to shut up about it it’s not cool it is boring
I don't know you and don't care for your opinion on the matter. I'll simply keep my own opinion and continue with my day. Might I suggest you move along with you day as well please. Thank you for your comment and engagement. 😉