Busch Gardens
Situated right next door to Kingsmill Resort is Busch Gardens, an action-packed European adventure theme park with 17th-century charm and 21st-century technology. The European countries of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy serve as the setting for Busch Gardens’ 100 acres of fun-filled world exploration. Whether you’re a kid, teen or adult, fun is always in season. With thrilling coasters, family-friendly shows, world-class dining and unique seasonal offerings, there's something to do all year long.
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Colonial Williamsburg
Just minutes from the resort is Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia's Colonial Capitol. Learn about trades in the 18th century and hear the sounds of the Fifes & Drums as they march down Duke of Gloucester Street. While you're enjoying Colonial Williamsburg, head to Merchants Square for shopping and unique dining experiences.
Water Country USA
Guests can dive into summertime fun at Water Country USA, the mid-Atlantic’s largest water park. The park offers fun for the entire family with a 1950s and 60s surf theme, new resort-style amenities and more than 30 state-of-the-art water rides and attractions including Cutback, the park’s newest water coaster. The park includes 43 acres of refreshing pools, children’s play areas and lazy rivers, offering hours of fun in the summer sun. Water Country USA now features resort-style amenities to help guests make the most of their day and swim lessons and classes to take their water experience to the next level.
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Jamestown Settlement and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
Right down the street from Kingsmill Resort are living-history museums that engage visitors in nearly two centuries of our nation's history - from the founding of America's first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the decisive Revolutionary War victory in 1781 and implementation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In 2007, Jamestown Settlement celebrated its 400th anniversary with several permanent exhibits, a new introductory film and revitalized living-history areas. Together, they resented the story of 17th-century Virginia and its Powhatan Indian, English and western central African cultural origins.
Shopping in Williamsburg
Premium Outlets
Featuring over 135 stores the Williamsburg Premium Outlets provides a true "one-stop" shopping experience. With names like Kate Spade New York, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren there's something to wow every shopper.
New Town
Williamsburg New Town is 365 acres of shopping, restaurants, entertainment, offices and homes. In New Town, you’ll find an extensive outdoor shopping mall, fine restaurants and quick eating, a 12-screen movie theater, banks and financial services, salons and gyms.
High Street
High Street is a beautiful mixed-use urban village, located in the middle of the city of Williamsburg. The Shops at High Street are distinguished by their refined Georgian architecture. With over 200,000 sq. ft. of retail space, a wide variety of eateries and restaurants complement an assortment of upscale merchants. All of this anchored by Movie Tavern, an 8-screen, 1,000 seat cinema café showing first-run movies.
Williamsburg Tasting Trail
Breweries, distilleries, wineries and more await your visit to Williamsburg, VA. Find a relaxing stop and indulge yourself with local fare and flavors.
The Williamsburg Winery
The Williamsburg Winery offers tours and tastings of its award-winning wines, a vineyard on its 300 acres and two excellent dining venues, the Gabriel Archer Tavern and Café Provençal.
The Colonial Wine Trail: The Colonial Wine Trail features four of Virginia’s best wineries, including the Williamsburg Winery, and all within a one-hour drive of Williamsburg. No matter where you start or finish your wine trail adventure, you are sure to enjoy great wines, great food and lots of fun along the way.
Aleworks Brewing Company
Williamsburg’s first microbrewery, Alewerks is a direct-fired brick-clad Peter Austin brewhouse. It offers brewery tours and tastings in its tap house and outdoor terrace, where 10 beers are on tap and a cask ale is served weekly. It makes small batches of beers like a mesquite-smoked brown ale and a Belgian-style dubbel as well as seasonal flavors like pumpkin spice.
Virginia Beer Company
The Virginia Beer Co. is a craft brewery, taproom and beer garden that opened in 2016. Virginia Beer focuses on a small, high-quality core lineup and rotating limited-edition beers using a custom-designed pump system. Its location offers an indoor tasting room as well as an outdoor beer garden including a weekly featured food truck.
Silver Hand Meadery
The area’s first meadery opened in early 2016 to offer this ancient honey-based fermented drink, entirely produced on the premises. The Silver Hand Meadery offers tastings and light-food pairings with the mead production completely visible to patrons.
Copper Fox Distillery
Copper Fox produces handcrafted whiskey from scratch, including the first applewood-aged whiskey in the world. Copper Fox focuses “on the flavoring of the malt using selected smoldering fruitwoods and hand-cut toasted fruitwood that add a range of natural flavors in the maturation process.”
8 Shires Coloniale Distillery
This craft micro-distillery offers “American Heritage” spirits using 18th-century recipes and techniques: bourbon and gin using Virginia grains, and rum using organic, non-GMO grade-A molasses – just as they would have been made in the early 1700s. Its Williamsburg Bourbon is the only bourbon in the world made with Indian corn. The distillery will be part living-history museum.