As the saying goes, parting is such sweet sorrow. By the start of 2027, Fauquier County will no longer be part of Northern Virginia, according to the Virginia Tourism Corporation.
The tourism group is creating a new region called the Virginia Piedmont, which will include Fauquier. The change also moves Culpeper and Rappahannock out of the NoVA tourism region.
The Virginia Piedmont region will consist of 11 different counties and cities, including Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, Culpeper County, Fluvanna County, Greene County, Louisa County, Madison County, Nelson County, Orange County, and Rappahannock County.
“For us, it’s more about representation,” Laura Torpy, Fauquier County Tourism Coordinator, told Fauquier Times. “We all have very similar assets. We have wineries, we have breweries, we have small towns, we have mountains, we have hiking that really our friends in the north don’t have.”
According to the release, the new tourism region was proposed to “establish a tourism region comprised of the same 11 localities as GO Virginia Region 9, an economic development initiative that encourages collaboration among local governments, higher education, private industry and workforce.”
The new region is set to become official on January 1, 2027.
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