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Start your visit at the award-winning Bedford Area Welcome Center to fully experience Bedford. Ruggedly beautiful with everything from antiquing to kayaking, mountain biking to romantic dinner cruises, Thomas Jefferson`s Poplar Forest to the National D-Day Memorial. Taste the Blue Ridge along the Bedford Wine Trail and visit our farms and orchards. The Bedford Welcome Center comprises 10,700 square feet of exhibit space, displays, administrative offices and meeting space. Amenities include an Exhibit Hall, Orientation Theatre, Firefighter's Gallery featuring Bedford's 1927 Seagrave Fire Engine and other antique firefighting memorabilia, merchant displays area, meeting and reception space, email station, weather center, WI-FI access, camper and motorcoach parking, dump stations and hook-ups, gift shop, dog walking area complete with doggie water fountain, picnic area, and rocking chair sitting areas. The Welcome Center is fully accessible.
From Route 29, take the 460 West Exit towards Roanoke. Go about 19 miles. When you get to Bedford, take the second Bedford Exit. There will be signs for the National D-Day Memorial and the Bedford Visitors Center exit. Come off the exit and take a right onto 122 South (Burks Hills Road). There will be a Citgo Gas Station on the right and the Bedford Welcome Center will be across the street on the left.
From Interstate 81 take the Troutville- Cloverdale Exit (#150A), to Alternate 220/Cloverdale Road; follow signs to 460 (Lynchburg and Bedford) and take a left onto 460 East. Go approximately 23 miles. When you get to Bedford follow the signs for The National D-Day Memorial and the Bedford Visitors Center exit (Route 122). Take a left off of the exit and a Citgo Gas Station will be on the right and the Bedford Welcome Center will be across the street on the left.
The Welcome Center currently has three RV hookup sites for one night only, except during certain special events or with special permission. The sites have water, electricity, sewer and WI-FI. The cost for full hook-up is $25.00 per night. Use of the convenience stations for RV Campers is $5.00 and commercial buses is $15.00.
All buses and campers must have a hose for the convenience stations. Parking only - no hookups is $10.00 per night. We do not take reservations. The sites are open year round except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Picnic tables are available on the North side of the center. For more information on the RV Hook-up sites call 540-587-5681 or 1-877 447-3257.