The James River Park System

Resources and Links

JRPS Publications

These pamphlets, written by Park Manager, Ralph White, are available for $2 each at Blue Ridge Mt. Sports, REI, Riverside Outfitters, City Hall, Reedy Creek Park Headquarters, and area museum gift shops.

Some can also be downloaded here as PDF files:

• An Interpretive Guide to the Trails of the Pony Pasture Rapids
• Fishing the Falls of the James
• Poetry Guide to the James River Park System
• Seeing the Scars of Slavery
• Wheelchair Accessible Tour of Shockoe Slip: From Top to Bottom
• Exploring the James: Richmond River Guide (buy Tyvek map online)

Other publications:

• A Walk on the Wall: An Interpretive Guide to the Richmond Floodwall
• An Interpretive Guide to Belle Isle
• Geology of the Fall Line 
• Photography Guide to the James River
• Snorkeling in the City
• Welcome to Pump House Park

Documents of Interest

The following documents concern the James River Park's Conservation Easement:

• James River Park Conservation Easement - Baseline Document - November 2008 (opens in new window)
• James River Park System's Deed of Easement (PDF)
• Map of the James River Park System's Proposed Easement, Property Along the South Bank of the James Between Willow Oaks Country Club and Hugunot Bridge (PDF)
• Ariel photograph of Great Shiplock Section of the James River Park System Showing Easement (PDF)

River Books

If you’re looking for a little river reading, we recommend the following:

• At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia and Its People, Marie Tyler McGraw (buy online)
• Falls of the James, David D. Ryan (find online)
• Falls of the James Atlas, William E. Trout, III, James Moore, III, and George D. Rawls (buy online)
• In River Time, Ann Woodlief 
• Insiders’ Guide to Richmond, Maureen Egan (buy online)
• The James River in Richmond, John Bryan
• Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape, T. Tyler Potterfield (buy online)
• Richmond Burning, Nelson D. Lankford (buy online)
• True Richmond Stories, Harry Kollatz, Jr. (buy online)