Wheelchair-Accessible Virginia Beach

Illustrative photo for Wheelchair-Accessible Virginia Beach — not an actual photo of any specific listed place
Illustrative photo. Photo by Jan van der Wolf via Pexels.

How We Picked

Every pick here is tagged "Wheelchair Accessible" in our directory — a detail documented on the business or place's own website or listing, not word-of-mouth. We pulled every real, currently-tagged listing across every category it applies to (capped here at 15 for a readable list — see the full tagged set via each category page). Details change, so confirm current hours/availability directly with the business before a visit.

The Picks

  1. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Beach

    Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge protects about 3 miles of Atlantic shoreline south of Sandbridge, reached on foot from the Visitor Contact Station via two boardwalks over the dunes: the quarter-mile Seaside Trail and the slightly longer Dune Trail with its midway viewing platform.

  2. City View Park

    A sports-first city park on Kempsville Road built around four lighted softball fields and a multi-purpose field, City View Park also includes basketball and volleyball courts and a playground fitted with therapeutic cradle swing seats — an inclusive-play detail that stands out among the city's standard playground equipment.

  3. Crowne Plaza Virginia Beach Town Center

    A recently renovated full-service Crowne Plaza in Virginia Beach's inland Town Center district, built around 12,000 square feet of event space.

  4. First Landing State Park

    Virginia's most-visited state park packs a genuine wilderness into the city's northern corner: 20 miles of trails through maritime forest, bald cypress swamp, and dunes, plus 1.5 miles of sandy Chesapeake Bay beach.

  5. First Landing State Park Beach

    First Landing State Park fronts 1.5 miles of sandy Chesapeake Bay beach — calmer water than the Atlantic side, backed by dunes and maritime forest instead of houses or hotels.

  6. Hilton Garden Inn Virginia Beach Town Center

    A Town Center business hotel with complimentary garage parking, a heated indoor pool, and its own Garden Grille restaurant steps from the shops.

  7. Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Oceanside

    An oceanfront Holiday Inn where every room has a private balcony, anchored by its own Hemingway's restaurant and bar.

  8. Hyatt Place Virginia Beach Oceanfront

    A 13-story, 140-room Hyatt Place at the quieter north end of the Boardwalk with both indoor and outdoor pools and a pet-friendly policy.

  9. iFLY Indoor Skydiving Virginia Beach

    iFLY puts real freefall two blocks from the Boardwalk: a vertical wind tunnel at 25th and Pacific where four fans generating 1,600 horsepower create a wall-to-wall cushion of air that lets you fly, no aircraft or parachute involved.

  10. JT's Grommet Island Park

    The first 100% accessible oceanfront park of its kind in America: 15,000 square feet of playground built directly on the beach at 2nd Street and the Boardwalk.

  11. Kids Cove at Mount Trashmore

    The biggest playground in Virginia Beach: nearly 26,000 square feet of play structures, swings, and climbing features at the base of Mount Trashmore's famous hill.

  12. King Neptune Statue

    Virginia Beach's most-photographed landmark is a 34-foot bronze King Neptune rising out of Neptune's Park at 31st Street and Atlantic Avenue, trident in hand, sea creatures swirling around his wave-carved base.

  13. Lake Lawson / Lake Smith Natural Area

    A 42-acre wooded preserve in Bayside with an outsized 12,000 feet of shoreline on two connected freshwater lakes — which is why anglers and birders treat it as one of the city's best small parks.

  14. Little Island Beach

    The guarded, facility-backed beach at the south end of Sandbridge: Little Island Park's oceanfront has a 400-foot fishing pier, designated swimming and surfing areas, outdoor showers, restrooms, and seasonal concessions — everything the residential Sandbridge shoreline deliberately lacks.

  15. Little Island Park

    The 122-acre city park anchoring the south end of Sandbridge, and the only full-facility public landing on that five-mile stretch of residential beach: a 400-foot fishing pier, lighted tennis and pickleball courts, basketball and volleyball courts, a playground, picnic shelters with grills, restrooms, outdoor showers, and seasonal concessions.

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