Chesterfield Parks & Recreation provides exceptional leisure, recreational, and outdoor programs and numerous and varied park facilities.

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Observe the progression of blooming aqautic plants such as swamp iris, lizard's tail, swamp mallow, pickerel weed, and swamp loosestrife. During winter, scan for waterfowl and during the other seasons, look for great egrets, herons, osprey, red-winged blackbirds, and bald eagles.

Non-tidal Wetlands at Dutch Gap

The tidal wetlands at Point of Rocks park are home to many important native pants, including wild rice, alder bushes, and tuckahoe plant. Each year, the layout of the wetlands change as the tide ebbs and flows, and the river rises and falls. 

Tidal Wetlands at Point of Rocks

This beautiful clearwater lake ringed by alder bushes offers visitors an unobstructed view of a plethora of aquatic plants and wildlife, including bluegill sunfish, turtles, and water snakes. Watch as green herons roost in the dense foliage around the lake, and as the seasons bring pops of color to the deciduous forest. 

Loch Lothian at Mid-Lothian Mines Park

Look out over beautiful Gregory's Pond to see double-crested cormorants, waterfowl, pickerelweed, and the changing colors of the season. 

Gregory's Pond at Rockwood Park

Track the rise and fall of the creek as it flows into the Appomattox River. Lined by river birch, cherry, and maple, this creek channel hosts a variety of aquatic life, birds, and beavers. 

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Tidal Wetlands at Point of Rocks

Creek at Radcliffe Conservation Area

Loch Lothian at Mid-Lothian Mines Park

Gregory's Pond at Rockwood Park

Non-tidal Wetlands at Dutch Gap

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