Mickey's Mile Marker - Your road trip guide to WDW!
Name of town: Bristol
Location: Virginia
Exit number(s): I-81, Exits 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10
Hours from WDW: 10 hours
Good Restaurants: Tons of good restaurants at Exit 7. Chili's, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesdays, O'Charlie's, Sagebrush, Perkins, Chops, etc. Also numerous fast food restaurants. Shoney's and other fast food restaurants, Exit 5.
Locations of 24 hour restaurants: Perkins Exit 7, Krystal Exit 3.
Locations of good, clean hotels/motels: Any fo the clean, nice, SAFE hotels would be located at Exit 7. This is the location of most of the restaurants. The hotels and restaurants at this exit are VERY new. All built within the last 3 to 4 years. The hotels were built within the last 1 to 2 years.
Recreation/attractions: Bristol Caverns, Bristol Motor Speedway & Visitor Center for NASCAR (we are a twin city with Bristol, TN), South Holston Lake Recreational Areas, Birthplace of County Music Museum.
Nearest Disney store/outlet...and type ie... Castle Store: No Disney Stores in this area.
Welcome Center: Virginia/Tennessee welcome Center at Exit 1.
Additional Information: Natural Tunnel is about an hour from Bristol.