Crow's Nest

Named after the black schooner The Crow, which harbored off the peninsula in the mid-1800s, Crow's Nest Peninsula is one of the last great undisturbed places in the mid-Atlantic area. Between Accokeek and Potomac Creek, it is one of the most pristine areas in the lower Potomac, with both a rich history and remarkable environmental values. Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve provides nesting, roosting, and migratory habitat for large numbers of neotropical migratory land birds, raptors, waterfowl, and wading birds, contains habitat for a variety of rare plant and animal species, and supports outstanding examples of unusual natural resources. Crow's Nest also has a long history and was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War. Its beauty and significance will be preserved as a Virginia Natural Area Preserve so that people in Stafford County, the Commonwealth, and beyond can enjoy it largely untouched, much as it has been for hundreds of years.

Virginia · United States