ROANOKE, VIRGINIA ⛰️ 🚵 🍔 | Home To The World's Largest, Man-Made Star ⭐ (4K)
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Roanoke, Virginia, is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are fantastic restaurants, the people are noticeably friendly, and there is a low cost of living.
“I think of it as a very, very early Austin or Portland," one person told me during my recent weekend trip to the city of around 100,000 people.
I'd recommend at least three days in Roanoke, especially if you enjoy mountain biking and hiking. There are also two great day trips, which I highlight in this video.
Filmed in November 2022, with an iPhone 13 Pro 📱 + DJI Mavic Air 2 + RØDE Wireless GO II
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Featured Sites 🏙️
•Black Dog Salvage - blackdogsalvage.com/
•The Grandin Theatre - www.grandintheatre.com/
•Mill Mountain Star - www.visitroanokeva.com/things...
•Mill Mountain Zoo - www.mmzoo.org/
•National D-Day Memorial - www.dday.org/
•Natural Bridge State Park - www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-pa...
•Roanoke Pinball Museum - roanokepinball.org/
•Taubman Museum of Art - www.taubmanmuseum.org/
Featured Restaurants, Breweries 🍽️ 🍺 🥪
•Big Lick Brewing Company - biglickbrewingco.com/
•Crescent City Bourbon & BBQ - crescentcitybourbonbbq.com
•Golden Cactus Brewing - www.goldencactusbrewing.com/
•Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint - www.jackbrownsjoint.com/locat...
•Local Roots - www.localrootsrestaurant.com/
•Texas Tavern - texastavern-inc.com/
Featured Accommodations 🏨
•Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center - www.hotelroanoke.com/
Video Chapters 📖
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Roanoke Pinball Museum
04:09 Texas Tavern
06:55 Roanoke Restaurants
08:17 Golden Cactus, Big Lick Breweries
10:45 Mill Mountain Star, Zoo
12:15 Natural Bridge State Park
14:25 National D-Day Memorial
19:56 Traveling To Roanoke
20:50 Miscellaneous Attractions
22:15 Outroduction
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👋🏼 About me...
Hey there! I'm Kevin Lewis, a former TV news reporter at ABC7 in Washington, D.C., and WNDU in South Bend, Indiana.
After working in television news for 15+ years, I straight up quit my job in February 2023 to have the freedom and flexibility to explore North, Central, and South America, capturing remarkable stories along the way, and sharing them with you right here on UA-cam.
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So many interesting places to visit in this beautiful country. Great compilation from Roanoke KDL 🎊
As a Roanoke resident. This video was very well produced.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! The neighborhood around the breweries is very cool. I'd imagine that's a fun place to live. I know reside in Florida, but I'll certainly check out the elevator museum next time I'm passing through Roanoke.
A great video, thank you. The Roanoke Pinball Museum is fabulous. With all the great craft beer in the area, the Lost Coast beer at the beginning if from Eureka California. 🤣 Oh well, still a great job. Thanks for it.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment, Woods Creek. And please forgive me for mistakenly letting that California beer slip into the Roanoke video lol
I've been to the pinball museum there. There is also a vintage arcade video game museum too.
Cool video, and pro editing job
These videos are awesome! Your subscribers count and view count doesn't reflect the quality. Keep up the great work. I'll be sharing
Wow! I so appreciate your kind feedback, Stefan. I will be tackling these travel videos full-time starting in March. I sure hope to build a larger subscriber count as I want to educate people on wondeful locations across the United States and beyond.
Proud to call Roanoke home!!
Me too
Awesome video!!! Can’t wait to visit!!!
I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the video! Roanoke is well worth the visit. The city also has a fantastic mountain biking trail system if that interests you.
Should come by the elevator museum that I run in Roanoke.
My oldest son lives in Roanoke I can not wait to move up there great video
Like video
Thanks, Stefan!
9:20 I live in that building.
How are you droning in a state park? Or at the Star, which is basically right on top of a helipad?
You can fly at the star. 50 ft limit though.
@@DieselDucy Great, so my favorite place to hangout growing up is filled with people droning around. Awesome.
Loved the video! The wife and I will be moving there next month and watching this makes me wish I was there now.
If you like outdoors stuff, they have a festival there every year called Gofest. It sounds stupid, but every year we have a blast. It's for hiking, biking, climbing, packing, and kayaking. Also, Roanoke is near one of the best sections of the AT. McAfee Knob is probably the most scenic part of the trail in this part of the country.
I have family in Roanoke and Salem, but I live near Smith Mountain Lake.
@@RonnieStanley-tc6vi Gofest sounds like something the wife and I will have to go to. It seems like it would be a good place to learn more about other outdoor sports. I am so excited to explore the AT. It is nice to know that we will be near the most scenic parts. I hear Smith Mountain Lake is beautiful and a great place to go if you want to go boating.
I hear the city is being crowded by people from North Carolina, Pennslyvania, New England, and Florida.
It's being crowded by murderers and dope Feins, STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS CRAP HOLE
Roanoke is a small city, there’s no overcrowding here.
@@jstoli996c4s That's going to change, eventually.
@@TravelGuy9834 well honestly the downtown area could use some more growth and vibrancy, lots of empty buildings right now, lots of potential. BTW I’m one of those transplants - Buffalo native, and came to Roanoke in 2022 after 27 years in Floriduh.
Actually they are wrong, the "empty" buildings downtown are now apartments and appear as if they are empty but they are not. And it is getting over crowded, thats one part of why there are so many homeless here, the downtown apartments are very expensive and people have come from other states and gotten the cheaper apartments. S.e. Roanoke looks like a garbage dump. This place is awful
I'm home sick.
I can see why. Roanoke is really special.
Home sick of what? The gangs? Shootings? Murders? Or the dope fiens? Or maybe the homeless that all these so called owners of buildings run off knowing they have no where to go?
* Second largest Star. The biggest is in Turkmenistan. Google is wrong.
Y’all getting a dislike because y’all didn’t add in Benny Marconi’s big a$$ pizzas
If you come to Virginia then you need your head checked. This is one of the worst states to live in PERIOD
Then get out. Bye bye now ✌️
You must not ride sport bikes, or kayak. pathetic human
The museum of art has been a hated eyesore since they completed it. The D Day memorial is beautiful and worth the trip!
Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave your comment. I agree, the D-Day Memorial was a highlight of my trip.
I don’t hate it. Guess you have to be a fan of art and architecture to appreciate it.
@@matthewchittum3456 a fan of garbage art. To each his own I guess.