RVA’s Summer Field Guide Hits The Streets Today

by | Jun 6, 2019 | COMMUNITY

With Memorial Day Weekend in the books, summer in Richmond is officially here!

To celebrate the liveliest season in the River City, RVA Magazine is proud to release the RVA Summer Field Guide: Our take on a solid season to get outdoors and enjoy the city’s best, out and on the streets today.

Beat the heat and humidity, and grab a first-edition copy of your new summer go-to guide. With a classic outdoor field guide feel, the RVA Summer Field Guide brings all the sunny-day feels and boozy ideas to make the most of your days.

The guide is packed with upcoming music events, summer festivals, guides to Richmond nightlife, summer beers to look for, the best watering holes in the state, plenty of planned trips for students and families alike, and many more. Oh, yeah — and we also have quite possibly the best scavenger hunt in existence.

While it’s impossible to include everything and everywhere that make summer fun so great in this state, what comes with the RVA Summer Field Guide is a quinnessential start to exploring the city we all call home. Pick up a free copy today at any of our amazing vendors and local hot spots in town, and be sure to grab one before they run out — we guarantee you’ll be glad you did!

You can check out a PDF of the guide online below. Check our Instagram and Twitter for a special release at Hardywood tonight, or check any of the spots listed below to get a copy of your own.

View the full RVA Summer Field Fuide here!

Grab yours before they run out! The RVA Summer Field Guide can be found now at these locations:

Hardywood
Mekong 
The Answer Brewpub
Ellwood Thompson’s

Check this weekend for more issues at these locations:

Colonial Shooting Academy 
The Boathouse
En Su Boca
Beauvine Burger 
River City Roll
Fire & Hops Pizza Co.
Rva Paddle Sports
The Poe Museum 
Taylor’s Barber Shop
Quirk Hotel 
Graduate Hotel 
Can Can Bar
Solita 
Little Saint 
Kabana 
Plan 9 
World of Mirth 
Chop Suey 
Havana 59
Capital Ale House
Station 2 
Union Market 
Legend Brewery 
Strangeways Brewing
Triple Crossing Beer 
Väsen 
The Veil Brewing Co. 
Ardent Craft Ales
Bingo Beer Co.
Three Notch’d RVA Collab House 
Canon & Draw 
Basic City Beer
Isley Brewing Company
Tang Biscuit 
The Hoff 
Circuit Arcade Bar
Black Heath Meadery
Final Gravity Brewing Co. 
Garden Grove Brewery
Tabol
Stone Brewing Richmond 
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery (downtown) 
Champion Brewing RVA 
Stawberry Street Market 
The Hop
Black Hand Coffee
Lamplighter Coffee
Gallery 5 (First Fridays) 

*Along with other local hot spots, markets and restaurants.  

RVA Staff

RVA Staff

Since 2005, the dedicated team at RVA Magazine, known as RVA Staff, has been delivering the cultural news that matters in Richmond, VA. This talented group of professionals is committed to keeping you informed about the events and happenings in the city.




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