Virginia Beach Official Visitors Guide - 2025/2026
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2025-10-08 10:25:12
Sandbridge is a relaxing and peaceful community where you can truly slow down and unwind on your vacation. Here are some of our favorite ways to live it up during your stay.
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VACATION RENTALS
Sandbridge is a hub of vacation rentals and condos in Virginia Beach. From quaint bungalows to 14-bedroom retreats, luxury condos, cottages with yards for kids and pets to play in, and everything in between, Sandbridge has a variety of stunning properties for all budgets and families of all sizes. Local rental companies offer the luxury of a seaside retreat with all the comforts of home.
KAYAKING & STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING
The unencumbered beauty of Back Bay makes it one of our favorite places to explore by water. There is no shortage of great local outfitters offering guided kayak and paddleboard tours of both Back Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. While beginners are welcome on the bay, the ocean tours, launching at Little Island Park, do require experience.
CAMPING & HIKING
Located in southern Sandbridge, False Cape State Park is a mile-wide barrier sandspit between Back Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The park offers primitive camping, where you can sleep right on the beach in near-complete isolation. With no public vehicle access, False Cape can only be reached by hiking, biking, small boats or the park’s beach transport and tram services through the neighboring Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
With 15 hiking and biking trails, varying in length and ranging from easy to difficult, there are many ways to explore one of the last remaining undeveloped areas on the East Coast. We’d recommend navigating the entire 15.3 miles of trails in the park, where you will experience both ocean and bay beaches, dunes, maritime forests, marshes and wooded swamps, all in one visit.
FAT-TIRE BIKING
If you think navigating a bike down our wide, sandy beaches sounds like an impossible feat, you have to try it out on a fat-tire bike, which can be rented from one of the area’s equipment outfitters. From the Oceanfront beaches to the Chesapeake Bay, there may be no better view than biking along the water’s edge, and the wide tires of these bikes make riding on the wet sand as easy as riding on pavement.
WILDLIFE VIEWING
With 9,175 acres, the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge is made up of barrier islands, dunes, beach woodland, freshwater marshes, maritime forests, ponds and ocean beaches, and is situated on a thin strip of coastline between Back Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. More than 300 species call the park home, offering some of the best birding opportunities on the East Coast.
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