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Harrisonburg-Days Inn James Madison Univ/Civil War Sites

1131 Forest Hill Road
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Nightly Rates: ( 68.28 - 78.94 )
3 Star


Property Description

The Days Inn Harrisonburg is nestled in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley at the foot of the Blue ridge Mountains of Virginia. We are conveniently located just off Interstate Highway 81 and adjacent to James Madison University. We are in walking distance to the Convocation Center, all facilities of James Madison University, Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Valley Mall, and Historic Sites. We offer complimentary deluxe continental breakfast, indoor pool and spa for relaxation, complimentary use of Gold' s Gym, and 77 channels including HBO and sports. We are proud to be designated as one of the top rated Days Inns and are always eager for our guests to experience our Virginia Hospitality.



Amenities

· Barber/Beauty Shop
· Coffee Maker in Room
· 24 Hour Front Desk
· Handicapped Rooms/Facilities
· Express Checkout
· Fishing
· Free Parking
· Free Local Telephone Calls
· Golf
· Hairdryers Available
· Microwave
· Modem Lines in Room
· Meeting/Banquet Facilities
· No Smoking Rooms/Facilities
· Free Newspaper
· Pets Allowed
· Indoor Pool
· Parking
· Refrigerator
· Restaurant
· Safe Deposit Box
· Shops/Commercial Services
· Skiing
· Fitness Center or Spa
· Tennis
· Television with Cable
· Laundry/Valet Services
· VIP Rooms/Services
· Adjoining Rooms
· Air Conditioned
· AM/FM Alarm Clock
· AM/FM Alarm Clock
· Audio Visual Equipment
· Breakfast
· Business Center
· Conference Facilities
· Continental Breakfast
· Connecting Rooms
· Copy Service
· Efficiency
· Elevators
· Ice Machine
· Iron
· Ironing Board
· Jacuzzi
· Laundry Service
· Guest Laundromat
· Overhead Projector
· Over Sized Rooms
· Pool
· Pool View
· Bus Parking
· Recreational Vehicle Parking
· Truck Parking
· Safe
· Free Airport Shuttle
· Sitting Area
· TV Remote Control
· Vending Machines
· Wake-up Service
· Wheel Chair Access
· Room Service


Room Information

Room Overview
Total Number of Guest Rooms: 89 Number of Handicapped Rooms: 4 Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 63 Number of Double/Double Rooms: 75 Number of King Rooms: 14 Number of Business Place Rooms: 14 Number of Meeting Rooms: 1
Standard King Bed Room


Standard Two Double Bed Room


Bathroom



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Miscellaneous Information

· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 02:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:00 AM
· Time Zone is EST
· Opened in 1984
· Renovated in 2004
· 89 rooms.
· 0 suites.
· 4 floors.


Directions

I-81, from North to exit 245. Left at light and hotel is one block on the left.

I-81 South to exit 245. Go through the light and hotel is on the left.

Take route 42 West to I-81 South to exit 245. Left at light and hotel is one block on the left.

Take route 42 East to I-81 South to exit 245. Go through the light and hotel is on the left.

From airport exit: take I-81 North to exit 245. Left at light and hotel is one block on the left.

Shenandoah Valley


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Cancellation Policy

Cancellation penalties may apply if cancelled after the policy deadline. Please review the reservation details before confirming your reservation as policies vary.


Restaurant Information

Restaurant

Western Sizzlin Boston Beanery(1 mile) Jesses( 1 mile) McDonalds(1 mile) Pargos(1 mile) Red Lobster(1 mile) Ruby Tuesdays(1 mile) Scruples(1 mile) Tolleys(1 mile) Wendys(1 mile)

Evers Family Restaurant

US 11 South Bridgewater, VA 540-433-0993 Open: 11am - 8pm Family style dining.

Joshua Wilton House

412 South Main St Harrisonburg, VA 540-434-4464 Open: Tues. - Sat. 5:30pm - 8:30pm Fine dining. Reservations are required.

Cracker Barrel

121 Pleasant Valley Rd Harrisonburg, VA 540-574-3099 Open: Sun - Thurs. 6am - 10pm Fri. & Sat. 6am - 11pm Country cooking for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, plus a nostalgic gift shop.

Shenandoh Grille

Port Republic Road at exit 245, In front of the JMU Days Inn A classic steakhouse in a mountain lodge setting. Featuring Certified Angus Beef and Southern Style Seafood. Expansive menu also includes creative appetizers, pasta and chicken dishes. Upscale service and ambiance at casual comfortable prices. The bar and lounge features a martini bar, steam bar and cigar lounge. Call 442-8550 for reservation and information?s.

Kooter Floyd's Barbecue

Port Republic Road at Exit 245, In front of the JMU Days Inn Authentic southern BBQ. Wood smoked pork, beef, ribs and chicken featuring Kooters Floyd's homemade rubs, spices and sauces. Everything is cooked on premise. You can smell the BBQ from your room at the Days Inn. Pig In or Pig out. Call 442-7551


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Recreation Information



Recreations

James Madison University Valley Mall(1 mile) Port Republic Battle Field(3 miles) Rocky Antique Mall(10 miles) Endless Caverns(12 miles) Massanutten Ski(12 miles) New Market Battle Field(12 miles) Blue Ridge Parkway(14 miles) Skyland Drive( 14 miles) Museum American Frontier(20 miles) Woodrow Wilson Museum(20 miles) Winter Green Ski Area(38 miles) Luray Caverns(40 miles) Monticello(55 miles) Natural Bridge(60 miles) New Market Battle Field(60 miles)


Area Attractions

Area Overview

Travelers can experience the warmth of Virginia's welcome all year long. Whether it's the brilliant foliage of fall, skiing and snowboarding in the winter, myriad colorful wildflowers in the spring, or playing a round of golf in the cool mountain temperatures of summer. Harrisonburg lies in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley noted for its deep agrarian roots, vistas, many caverns and prime fishing waters.


Massanutten Ski Resort

Harrisonburg, VA 800-207-MASS Nationally known resort where visitors can fish, swim, ride horses, ski, golf, and mountain bike. Virginia's four season mountain resort.


Massanutten Ski Resort

Harrisonburg, VA 800-207-MASS Nationally known resort where visitors can fish, swim, ride horses, ski, golf, and mountain bike. Virginia's four season mountain resort.

Endless Caverns

Newmarket, VA 540-896-2283 or 800-544-CAVE Open: June 15th - Labor Day 9am - 7pm Impressive array of stalactites, stalagmites, giant columns, flow stone and limestone pendants. No end has ever been discovered to these caverns.

Natural Bridge

Natural Bridge, VA 800-533-1410 or 540-291-2121 Open: 8am - Dark Shenandoah Valley's 25-story natural wonder and historic landmark.

Shenandoah National Park

Luray, VA 540-999-3500 Ranger stations open: 8:30am - 5pm Embrace one of the highest and most scenic portions of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is also the home of Skyline Drive.


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Travel Information for Virginia Hotel Guests


If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Virginia attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Virginia state park, this is where you will find it.

VIRGINIA certainly offers variety: its beaches catering to family fun, two world-renowned theme parks – Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Paramount’s King’s Dominion – as well as other water parks and zoos, a rich heritage, museums from aerospace to zoology, golf from the Atlantic Ocean to the Blue Ridge Mountains, shopping from factory outlets to craft shops, its country roads dotted with antique shops and auctions, and every type of outdoor activity.

Located in the Southwest Blue Ridge region, ABINGDON is a Virginia Historic Landmark; Morgan McClure Motorsports Museum & Souvenir Center is a "must see" for all NASCAR and racing fans, and the Virginia Creeper National Recreation Trail is a 34-mile scenic railroad bed converted into a recreational trail.

The history of ALEXANDRIA reads like a Who's Who of American History. Attractions include Fort Ward, housing a Civil War collection, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens and Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason, father of the Bill of Rights.

ARLINGTON National Cemetery is a shrine to the women and men who have died for their country, including the Tomb of The Unknowns and John F. Kennedy’s gravesite; other attractions include Newseum, which takes visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made, and The Pentagon where free tours are available.

Located in the Southwest Blue Ridge region near Wytheville, visitors to BASTIAN can experience a palisaded aboriginal village dating back more than 700 years at Wolf Creek Indian Village & Museum.

The Twin Cities of BRISTOL are in Virginia, on the north side of State Street, and in Tennessee, on the south side. Recognized by the U.S. Congress as the “Birthplace of Country Music” , Bristol pays tribute to its heritage with a downtown mural, monument and museum; the home where Tennessee Ernie Ford was born is garnished with mementos.

CHARLOTTESVILLE in Central Virginia is home to three U.S. presidents and their estates: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, James Monroe's Ash Lawn and James Madison's Montpelier, all within miles of each other.

CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, Virginia's only resort island, is famous for its oyster beds and clam shoals. Chincoteague is the gateway to the Assateague Island National Seashore, a barrier island, and the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge.

Among the historic FREDERICKSBURG attractions are the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Battlefield visitor centers, the Fredericksburg Area Museum And Cultural Center, George Washington's Ferry Farm, the boyhood home of George Washington, and Kenmore Plantation & Gardens, a Colonial mansion.

At the Virginia Air & Space Center, HAMPTON, the visitor center for NASA Langley Air Force Base, visitors can find such space-age artifacts as the Apollo 12 Command Module and a three-billion-year-old moon rock.

The entire downtown LEXINGTON- ROCKBRIDGE is listed as Historic Places. The pre-Civil War Stonewall Jackson House is the only home that the famous Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson ever owned. The Virginia Military Institute Museum illustrates the history and traditions of the Institute. South of Lexington is Virginia's premier natural tourist attraction, The Natural Bridge including the Nature Park, Caverns, and Wax Museum.

LOUDOUN is located less than an hour's drive from bustling Washington D.C. in the heart of horse country and foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Near LYNCHBURG Walk is Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, his plantation home-away-from-home. East of Lynchburg at Appomattox visitors can relive the drama of the closing days of the Civil War at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and follow Robert E. Lee’s retreat on a 26-stop automobile tour.

To the west of Lynchburg there are 218 historic buildings in BEDFORD, but visitors can go back even further in time at Holy Land USA, a 250-acre replica of the Holy Land and Bible Lands.

MANASSAS National Battlefield Park was the site of the first major Civil War battlefield (also known as the Battle of Bull Run) and of the Second Battle of Manassas.

A scenic and rural outdoor recreation destination in the Blue Ridge Mountains, NELSON COUNTY is 35 minutes southwest of Charlottesville. Bordered by the Blue Ridge Parkway with 30 miles of scenic roads, overlooks and trails, Nelson County teems with vineyards and orchards, streams for anglers, and watchable wildlife. Rich in history, Nelson County is home to the elegantly restored Oak Ridge Estate, and to Wintergreen Resort, an 11,000-acre four season resort.

The Mariners' Museum in NEWPORT NEWS has the Crabtree Collection of Miniature Ships and artifacts from the USS Monitor, the Virginia Living Museum is a combination of a native wildlife park, science museum, aquarium, botanical preserve and planetarium – all in one setting.

At the 400-year-old seaport NORFOLK visitors can see the National Maritime Center, tour the Norfolk Naval Base Tour, or stroll around the 20 themed gardens of the Norfolk Botanical Garden.

In PORTSMOUTH there are tours of the Olde Towne historic district or an Olde Towne Trolley Tour past 18th and 19th century homes, Revolutionary and Civil War sites, the oldest operating naval hospital in America and other sights.

The streets of the capital RICHMOND, in Central Virginia, are filled with museums, churches, hotels and historic houses. The Civil War Trails interprets 250 Civil War sites. The Museum of the Confederacy is the leading center for the study of the Confederacy and the American Civil War. Richmond National Battlefield commemorates eleven different sites associated with the Civil War. South of Richmond at PETERSBURG visitors can relive the final days of the Civil War at at Petersburg National Battlefield and at Pamplin Park Civil War Site.

In ROANOKE A restored early 20th century warehouse, Center in the Square provides space for several independent cultural organizations. Other Roanoke attractions include The Roanoke Valley, Crossroads of History museum and Virginia’s Explore Park, an early American settlement.

Located along the historic Great Road of Virginia, the Salem Museum in SALEM traces the growth of a community from its Native American origins.

There are a number of caverns to explore in SHENANDOAH VALLEY and SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, including Luray Caverns with a Car and Carriage Caravan Museum, the Skyline Caverns at Front Royal, the Shenandoah Caverns and near Strasburg the Crystal Caverns at Hipps Hill; Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is at Strasburg.

The Frontier Culture Museum, STAUNTON, is a unique international living history museum of American and European heritage.

TAPPAHANNOC dates back to a 17th century port settlement; by following the markers visitors can take a historic tour of Essex County.

VIRGINIA BEACH is a 310sq.mile vacation playland. At the Old Coast Guard Station two galleries depict the history of the life-saving service, shipwrecks off the Virginia coast and other exhibits. Another attraction is the Virginia Marine Science Museum.

The George Washington Birthplace National Monument in WESTMORELAND memorializes George Washington. Nearby, at Montross, is the Westmoreland State Park. The Stratford Hall Plantation was the ancestral home of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of General Robert E. Lee.

The story of America's past comes to life in Virginia's Historic Triangle: WILLIAMSBURG, JAMESTOWN and YORKTOWN. 18th-century Colonial Williamsburg is the world's largest outdoor living history museum. Jamestown Settlement explores the world of America's first permanent English colonists and their Powhatan Indian neighbors. Exhibits and film tell the story of the Revolutionary era at the Yorktown Victory Center. Busch Gardens Williamsburg is a 17th-century European-themed park.