Leesylvania State Park
Virginia State Park; Includes The Lee Family House Site And Cemetery And The 1861 Freestone Point Confederate Battery · Woodbridge, Virginia
Five hundred and forty acres on a wooded point where Neabsco and Powells creeks meet the Potomac, and one of the few places in Northern Virginia where colonial history, Civil War earthworks and a working boat ramp share the same car park. The Lee family farmed this ground - Henry Lee II built Leesylvania here in the 1740s, and his son Henry, the cavalry commander Washington called Light-Horse Harry and the father of Robert E. Lee, was born on it. The house burned; the family cemetery and the house site are still up the hill, reached on a trail that keeps climbing past them to the Freestone Point battery, where Confederate guns were dug in during 1861 to close the Potomac to Union shipping and where the earthworks are still clearly readable in the ground. Below all that is the modern reason most people come: a large, well-built ramp that puts you straight onto the tidal Potomac, a long fishing pier, a sand beach for launching kayaks, and a shoreline that stays busy with bass boats from March to November.
2001 Daniel K Ludwig Drive, Woodbridge, Virginia, 22191, United States
Park open daily, generally 6 AM to dusk with seasonal variation; the boat ramp opens earlier in the fishing season. Visitor centre hours are shorter and reduced in winter. Parking fee per vehicle plus a separate launch fee per boat. No camping. Swimming is not permitted anywhere in the park.
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