Deep Bottom Park
Schedule
Thu Apr 02 2026 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
9525 Deep Bottom Rd, Henrico, VA 23231-85ND, United States | Hopewell, VA
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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
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