The local guide
The shopping, restaurants, trails, parks and everyday places of the New River Valley’s shopping town. 82 local places, each checked against its own website or an official page.
Map
Choose a kind of place to see only those. Select a dot for its name and a link to the details.
Off the map: Claytor Lake State Park, about 13 mi from downtown.
The retail district
Five shopping centers and the big stores around them fill the corner where North Franklin Street meets Peppers Ferry Road, north of the U.S. 460 bypass. Montgomery County’s economic development office calls it “the major shopping hub of the New River Valley.” 27 places from this guide are here, about 2.4 mi north of downtown Christiansburg and 4.6 mi from downtown Blacksburg.
Downtown Christiansburg
Main Street and Franklin Street cross at the old public square, beside the Montgomery County Courthouse. 13 places from this guide are within half a mile of that corner: the county museum, Town Hall, the library, a brewery, restaurants and parks. Cambria’s depot district, with antiques and used books, is under a mile north.
In Cambria
Getting around
Straight-line miles from Main and Franklin streets. Driving distances are longer. Neighborhood and home pages measure the same places from where you would live.
1.2 mi
I-81, exit 114 (Route 8)
2.1 mi
I-81, exit 118 (U.S. 460)
6.9 mi
The Virginia Tech Drillfield
4 mi
LewisGale Hospital Montgomery
6 mi
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
Parks and trails
The paved Huckleberry Trail runs from Christiansburg past the Recreation Center to Blacksburg. The Town keeps nine community parks, and the county and the state add more nearby.
More parks, with straight-line miles from downtown
Know the town
Neighborhoods
Each one shows what is nearby from this guide, with homes for sale and recent sales.
Explore neighborhoodsMarket
Prices, sales and time on market, month by month.
See the marketHistory
From the public square to the shopping town.
Read the historyFAQ
This guide lists local places in nine categories: shopping centers and big stores; restaurants and bars; coffee and sweets; groceries and markets; local shops; parks, trails and outdoors; arts, culture and entertainment; fitness and recreation; and everyday services. Start with the retail district, the courthouse square downtown and the Huckleberry Trail.
In the retail district where North Franklin Street meets Peppers Ferry Road, north of the U.S. 460 bypass and north of downtown: Uptown Christiansburg, New River Valley Center, Christiansburg Marketplace, Spradlin Farms Shopping Center and Laurel Plaza, with Walmart Supercenter, Target, Lowe’s and The Home Depot.
Downtown is centered where Main Street and Franklin Street cross at the old public square, beside the Montgomery County Courthouse. Town Hall, the Montgomery Museum of Art and History, the library and Downtown Park are a few blocks apart, and the Cambria depot district is just to the north.
A paved trail between the towns, from the Blacksburg Library trailhead to the Christiansburg Recreation Center, with another Christiansburg access point at Uptown Christiansburg. The Town extended it to Christiansburg High School in 2020. Christiansburg Huckleberry Park sits beside it off Peppers Ferry Road.
Membership is free for town residents, town real estate taxpayers and owners of businesses with an office in town, and others can buy one. The center on North Franklin Street has a gym with four full courts, an indoor walking track, racquetball courts and weight and cardio rooms.
Kroger, 555 N Franklin St; Food Lion (North Franklin Street), 1530 North Franklin St; Food Lion (Roanoke Street), 1530 Roanoke St; ALDI, 2265 N Franklin St; Walmart Supercenter, 2400 N Franklin St; Earth Fare, 2625 Market St NE. The Town’s farmers market meets Thursday afternoons, May through October, at Christiansburg Huckleberry Park.
Two, both with emergency rooms: Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, 2900 Lamb Circle, off Tyler Road toward Radford, and LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, 3700 S Main St, at the south end of Blacksburg. Most of town is nearer LewisGale; the west and southwest are nearer Carilion. For walk-in urgent care, Carilion Clinic VelocityCare (Christiansburg) is at 434 Peppers Ferry Rd, open every day. In an emergency, call 911.
Montgomery County real estate taxes are due June 5 and December 5; assessment records are kept by the Commissioner of the Revenue at the Montgomery County Government Center, 755 Roanoke Street. The county’s 2027 reassessment sends new values in the fall of 2026, and they take effect January 1, 2027. Town of Christiansburg taxes and utility bills are paid to the Town, online or at Town Hall, 100 East Main Street. Deeds are recorded by the Clerk of Circuit Court at the courthouse, 55 East Main Street.
We list local places people use every week, check each one against its own website or an official page, and leave out anything we cannot confirm is open. National chains appear only as a shopping-center anchor or the everyday option. No business pays to be listed, and there are no sponsored spots. To suggest a place, use the contact page.
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Each place was checked against its own website or an official page (the Town of Christiansburg, Montgomery County, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Postal Service or a store’s own page) on Oct 14, 2026. Locations from OpenStreetMap or the US Census geocoder. Hours change, so check with the business before you go. Distances are straight-line miles.