Visit Altavista and the surrounding area

Visit some of our personal favorites in and around Altavista.

Avoca Museum: Avoca is the home place of Revolutionary Patriot Colonel Charles Lynch. The house is an excellent example of 19th Century American Queen Anne architecture. The property is listed on both the Virginia and National Registers of Historic Places. It was given to the Town of Altavista in the 1980s, and is operated by the non-profit Avoca Museum and Historical Society.

Altavista YMCA: The Altavista Area YMCA was founded in 1971 making the community of Altavista the smallest town in America with a YMCA. Today the YMCA encompasses almost three city blocks and over 65,000 square feet of facilities valued at over $5 million dollars. The physical complex consists of the Family Center built in 1972 and the Athletic Center constructed in 1994.

Leesville Lake: Leesville Lake is part of the Smith Mountain hydro-electric pump storage project on the Roanoke River built by AEP in the early 1960's. It begins at the base of Smith Mountain Dam and snakes 17 miles to Leesville Dam which is just upstream from Leesville Virginia and the mouth of Goose Creek. It is the "lower" lake of the pump storage system and lake levels fluctuate between 600 ft to 613 ft above mean sea level. The lake covers 3,270 acres containing 94,900 acre-feet of water at full pond.

Smith Mountain Lake: Virginia's second largest lake, offers superb recreational activities, 500 miles of waterfront shoreline, a wide variety of water sports, and very affordable vacation rentals.