Tourism offices
Giles County
2 organizations market this county. Every contact below was checked against the organization’s own website in September 2026.
Friends of Southwest Virginia
- Phone
- (276) 492-2400
- Website
- friendsofswva.org
- Contact
- Kim Davis, Executive Director
Where it says it works
Southwest Virginia — the Communities page lists Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Dickenson, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise and Wythe counties together with Bristol, Galax, Norton and Radford
Verification note
Coverage matches the state's 19 counties and 4 independent cities exactly. Kim Davis confirmed as Executive Director, and info@friendsofswva.org and (276) 492-2400 are the published general contacts. EMAIL DOMAIN CAUTION: every staff address published on the site is now @myswva.org (e.g. rvaughan@myswva.org, cfox@myswva.org); no address is published for Kim Davis, and the state's kdavis@friendsofswva.org appears on no page. Office: One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210. The organization also operates the SWVA Cultural Center and a Visitor Center at that address, and runs 'Round the Mountain.
Giles County — Virginia's Mountain Playground (Office of Tourism & Marketing)
The state directory lists it as “Giles County”.
- Phone
- (540) 921-2079
- Website
- virginiasmtnplayground.com
- Contact
- Cora Gnegy, Director, Office of Tourism & Marketing
The domain in the state directory is dead or parked.
Where it says it works
Giles County, VA — '37 miles of the New River' and 'over 50 miles of the Appalachian Trail', with Pearisburg as the county seat
Verification note
DOMAIN CHANGED / LISTED DOMAIN UNREACHABLE: gilescounty.org, the state's listed website, returns HTTP 503 ('upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers') on every attempt over both http and https. Giles County's live site is virginiasmtnplayground.com, which now carries the whole county government (Board of Supervisors, Administration, Doing Business) under the 'Virginia's Mountain Playground®' tourism brand. The gilescounty.org domain still works for mail — tourism@gilescounty.org and cgnegy@gilescounty.org are both published there. TITLE: the site lists Cora Gnegy simply as 'Director' of the 'Office of Tourism & Marketing' (the state had 'Tourism Marketing Director'). Tourism line (540) 921-2079 confirmed; county administration is (540) 921-2525 at 1 Taylor Avenue, Suite 2, Pearisburg, VA 24134.