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Meeting and Conference Destinations:
Charlottesville

Meet in the presidents’ footsteps
Charlottesville offers a rich historical place to visit, nestled inside the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Visitors can see impressive architecture and gain historical insight into some of Virginia’s earliest presidents at attractions such as Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland and the University of Virginia’s Jefferson-designed “Academical Village”.

For a unique experience, guests can eat lunch at Michie’s Tavern, a Colonial tavern that offers recipes from America’s early history. The city also offers wineries, outdoor adventures, unique shopping and dining and more than 100 places for guests to stay.

The city gives conference goers an escape into a serene setting, but it is easily accessible from Virginia’s major cities, a two-hour drive from Washington, D.C., and an hour’s drive from Richmond.

Charlottesville/Albemarle County
Convention & Visitors Bureau
P.O. Box 178
600 College Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 977-2059
(877) 386-1102
Contact: Mark Shore, director

Conference Hotels

Boar’s Head Inn (view PDF ad)
200 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(800) 476-1988
(434) 296-2181
www.boarsheadinn.com
Contact: Crissa E. Askins, marketing and communications manager
crissa_askins@boarsheadinn.com

Located on 573 acres of Virginia countryside just outside Charlottesville, the Boar’s Head Inn is a 170-room, first-rate resort offering guests a luxurious stay away from home in a charming inn setting. The resort offers an abundance of activities, including four-diamond dining, children’s programs, relaxing treatments at a luxury spa and a top-notch sports club.

The inn recently completed a $1 million renovation of its Birdwood Golf Course, a challenging golf course with the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background. The course is consistently ranked by Washington Golf Monthly as one of the mid-Atlantic’s “must-play” courses. The inn also recently completed a $7.5 million expansion of the Boar’s Head Sports Club, making it one of the country’s most impressive tennis facilities. The club is consistently ranked by Tennis magazine as one of America’s top 50 tennis courts.

The inn offers 13,000 square feet of meeting space and a 3,300-square-foot ballroom. Boar’s Head plans to dramatically expand its conference capacity with a $10 million, 17,000-square-foot meeting pavilion expected to open in 2008.