NPS helps you learn about and enjoy the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in North America.
Here, you can visit major league cities, colonial towns, farms and fishing villages. You can learn to kayak, pick crabs, go fishing, tour a lighthouse, slurp oysters, and slow down to enjoy the natural beauty of the Chesapeake. Download the Chesapeake Explorer mobile app or visit FindYourChesapeake.com.
Read More
Explore the Chesapeake
![View from Black Point at Jamestown Island](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170126231056im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/ner/crop16_9/25D26816-1DD8-B71B-0B015576361CCB88.jpg?width=950&quality=90&mode=crop)
Energy Project and the James River
Learn about the proposed overhead electric transmission line project in the James River within Virginia's "Historic Triangle"