Roots and Vistas Tours

Roots & Vistas Tours (RVT) offers history-curious visitors to the greater Charlottesville area immersive, engaging, and accurate walking tours to inspire greater understanding, appreciation, and application of the lessons of our complex history.

Whether it’s a stroll through Charlotteville’s lovely Downtown Mall or a walk that explores the rich and fraught racial history of the area, our tours will help you see this place more deeply and more fully than you may have ever seen it before. You’ll learn about the famous people, presidents included, that made Charlottesville home, and you’ll come to love some of our quieter but profoundly important citizens as well.

We’ll answer your questions and fill in the gaps in your historical knowledge. And we may just even tell you some of our secrets and recommend the best winery or burgers in the area.

In any case, you’ll finish your tour with a mind full of information and, we hope, a heart full of love for this city we call home.
You can see a list of current tour offerings here, and learn more about your guide, Sterling Howell, here.