Riverside Park, like Peaks View Park, is a pretty standard city park with pretty standard park birds. Also, like Peaks View, fall is the best time of the year to go birding here due to the abundance of fruiting trees. Tanagers and orioles are quite common in fall if you’re willing to sift through a tidal wave of catbirds. Where this park differs from Peaks View is that it lies a couple of hundred feet up a cliff from the James River. The park has a handful of trails with one leading to a platform overlooking the river. Here you may hear distant Yellow-throated Warblers and Northern Parulas singing downhill.
Accessibility: This park has ample public parking available in three lots. In addition to trails, it offers a host of amenities including public restrooms, picnic shelters, athletic courts, and a playground. For birders with an interest in history, it also has a transportation exhibit featuring railroad cars and the hull of a packet boat.
eBird Hotspot: Riverside Park
Owner/Manager: City of Lynchburg
—Logan Anderson