A Gateway

The North Landing River is a gateway. If you are traveling north on the river through the heart of Virginia Beach, you are surrounded by wide marshland and tangled pathless swamps. Bald Cypress and Bald Eagles, residents of these wetlands for eons, watch indifferently. Passing the North Landing Bridge, you will enter the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal and reach the port city of Norfolk and the Chesapeake Bay beyond. 

Traveling south on this Virginia Scenic River, the river widens - as does the marsh - and you enter a quieter world. The North Landing merges with Currituck Sound, both part of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System, the second largest estuary in the US. From the mouth of the North Landing you have access to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, secluded beaches, blackwater rivers, and the abundant calmness that hangs over the Albemarle region. The North Landing connects our unrestrained, delirious urban world with the tranquil Land of the Wild Goose. The North Landing River itself is an escape - a wild, undeveloped, massive system of marsh and swamp and pocosin, home to what is still wild in Virginia Beach. And home to amazing sunrises.

Schedule your ecotour to explore this environmental wonderland.