Deep Bottom Park

You can paint the river or the Four Mile Creek. Deep Bottom Park has two boat launches which provide access to the James River, a canoe/kayak launch at the mouth of Four Mile Creek, and unobstructed views up and down the river from the fishing pier or shoreline. Deep Bottom Park sits on the outside of a tight curve in a section of the James River sometimes called the Oxbows for its meandering course between Dutch Gap and Bermuda Hundred.

Deep Bottom was named for the many unusual, deep-water pockets scattered in the James River here, one of which has a depth of 35 feet.

The park is the site of a militia position during Benedict Arnold's 1781 raid on the City of Richmond and also a British rest stop. During the Civil War, a pontoon bridge here linked Federal troops located north and south of the James River. Its steady use began in June 1864, and the Union’s Army of the James continued to use this key river crossing until the end of the war.

Great bathroom facilities!

Abundant bass, catfish, and other fish species in the tidal James River bring in bald eagles, ospreys, great egrets, laughing gulls, and even some Caspian terns. The habitat specialist prothonotary warblers breed here, too.

Four Mile Creek is usually navigable in Deep Bottom’s wetlands and for a mile or more upstream, especially when the tide is coming in, so there are plenty of nooks and crannies to check for green and great blue herons, wood ducks, and belted kingfishers.

See map of park. https://henrico.gov/assets/DeepBottomParkMap7-2019.pdf

You may also like the following events from Shavon Peacock:

• Next month, 26th March, 02:00 pm, VPAP Paint Out at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery West Creek in Henrico
• This June, 11th June, 09:00 am, Paint out at John J. Radcliffe Conservation Area on the Appomattox River in Petersburg

Also check out other Sports events in Hopewell, Workshops in Hopewell, Trips & Adventurous Activities in Hopewell.