Escape to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, just 70 miles west of Washington, DC. Skyline Drive, a National Scenic Byway, showcases Shenandoah National Park, the Shenandoah Valley to the east and Piedmont to the west.
Explore the house, gardens, and plantation of Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.