Foamhenge

Loved this place. If you’re going to go to Natural Bridge, do it right and visit this place. So hilarious, and very creative. Definitely should be on VA’s top 10 places to visit.

Back in June 2015 the gate to it was closed and locked, but that wasn’t stopping me from seeing my favorite bizarre road side attraction of all time.
This thing is magnificent. I make sure I see it every time I am on my way to Bonnaroo. It has unfortunately deteriorated a lot since I first saw it in 2008. I want to meet the person who built this and tell them how much joy it has brought to me.

This was a fun stop on our 19 hour road trip! It is only about 5 minutes off the highway so it was easy to find and hop back right on the road after. Was also nice to get out, stretch our legs and let the dog do his thang. Makes for some good photo ops, and you could probably fool some people! Haha
There looked like some hiking told nearby too if you have time to kill. I’d take friends here if I go that way again on a road trip!

Absolutely worth the few minutes’ time waste to go see this. Free. Park along the white fence and walk maybe 200 yards to see it. It is a shame that it is deteriorating so much — at least 2 of the blocks are missing entirely, the remainder are losing most of their coating (a grey paint-​like substance) and the exposed white foam is crumbling. (please, if you visit: Don’t touch or make it worse).
The real trick is to go see it and imagine it made of stone. Wonder at how it might have been built (of stone — the foam looks much easier…) and if it is sunny see if the stones line up or not: We were there at Winter Solstice, but in the *%$& rain.
I doubt I’d ever go back, but it is easy on and off the highway (I-​81) in either direction. Look for the white fence maybe 50 yeard long on the I-​81 side of VA-​11 about a mile from the highway in either direction. Park, walk thru the gap in the fence, about 100 yards in look left for the marker, go up the hill (slippery in the rain) and there it is. Very cool fiberglass sculpture too, a wizard or priest directing construction I suppose. Even Zippy the Pinhead was there.
Bottom line: Even in the rain, worth the 15 – 20 minutes it took from my travels. Take photos. 4 stars because of deterioration.

Adventurous? Artistic? Appreciate te offbeat? Go see this gem before it is gone. It’s not often that something so delightfully strange happens. Something so wonderously unecessary and off beat, so obscure yet accessible.
It’s become a little hard to find. No street signage. Look for a fence about a mile past natural bridge. Walk in and go left. You will be rewarded.

Super cool little stop on a roadtrip and it’s not far off the highway. Look for the white picket fence on the right side of the road and park on the shoulder. Follow the path up and to the left to find legendary FOAMHENGE!

Foamhenge is technically «closed», it is no longer maintained by the owner and there is a fence around the site, with a locked gate.
You totally can still see it, though. Find the dirt road and white fence. Google Maps knows how to take you there if you search for «Foamhenge». Hop the fence, or crawl through the holes in the gate, walk up for a bit, then turn right and walk up a hill. There is foamhenge in all of its Styrofoam glory. If you cannot take some great pictures here and be amused by the creator’s sense of humor, then you have no appreciation of whimsy.
Some are talking about seeing this from the road — when I was here, Foamhenge was completely surrounded by trees and was impossible to see from the road.

What can I say, I love Foamhenge (the foam replica of Stonehenge). It’s just so random and great! It is beginning to show some wear these days though (but then again so am I). I don’t live nearby, but I stop by this place anytime I travel through the area. At this point I feel like it’s my own little utopia. My thoughtful spot if you will. It’s also a great place to watch the sunrise.

It’s not easy to find, but once you pull off at the gates, jump the gates, and start to walk up the hill to Foamhenge, your discovery of it as you walk up the hill is worth it! Even once you get to the top, the size of it is a fantastic sight — like another reviewer said, it is starting to show its age, but right now, that only lends itself to a weathered look — hopefully it doesn’t deteriorate too quickly! Well worth the stop!

To preface, I gravitate toward the ridiculous, the absurd. But I also have a lot of fun looking for things. It used to be that you would have to get directions to find off-​beat roadside curiosities. But thanks to the Internet, you really can find just about anything. So for me, what makes Foamhenge special is that it’s not visible from the road, there are no signs that say «turn right for Foamhenge», and there is quite literally NO ADDRESS. It shows up on google maps, sure. But it just indicates that it’s on HWY 11. So I put my GPS aside, did this the old fashioned way, and remembered just how much fun these kinds of things used to be before handheld internet access.
The entrance is rather unassuming, to say the least. The sign at the entrance gets an a+ for positioning/​landscape/​design because you’ll notice it first, and then it focuses your eye just past it, down a little path, to the hill where foamhenge resides.
To be honest, it’s a little worse for the wear these days. But that didn’t dampen my excitement. The very idea that someone thought to create this is so humorous to me. Take a few moments to just take it all in: the bench with the Zippy The Pinhead comic, the Merlin statue, and the PLAQUE which details the Merlin statue.
What made this truly magical for me was that, as soon as I crawled through the hole in the gate, still only suspicious that foamhenge might be just around the corner, there were butterflies. Bright yellow butterflies EVERYWHERE. So don’t try to tell me it’s not magical.

Gotta give this 5 stars! Wish I could give more. This is the coolest most unexpected photo op I have ever come across. It is literally a replica of Stonehenge made of FOAM! Stop by on your way to Natural Bridge Park. What great fun!
Tips: Read all the signage. Wear proper hiking shoes – there was a bit of a walk that had areas that were a tad slippery. Bring fun props if you are a fan of Outlander.

GO. It is so WFT.

We could have done without. There’s no sign and you can not see it from the road but once you pass the zoo, it’ll be on your right hand side. A white fence is road side.

Fun to check out before or after the Natural Bridge. Bring friends and a sense of humor.
From Wikipedia
Foamhenge is a full-​size replica of Stonehenge made entirely out of styrofoam in Natural Bridge, Virginia.[1] The structure was created by Mark Cline of Enchanted Castle Studio[1] in 2004, with the pieces in astronomically correct positions.[2]
1 «Foamhenge». Roadside America. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Adamiak, Jessica (August 2011). «Foamhenge, Natural Bridge, VA». Travel + Leisure Magazine. Retrieved 8 April 2012.

This is a fun little side-​trip adventure. The gate is locked now but people either vault the fence or walk around it to go back into the land of Foamhenge!
The once-​mighty pillars have seen wear and tear over time but it’s still a fun and impressive little photo opportunity with the family. It’s worth a quick stop, a short walk, and a good number of pictures.

Be warned that it’s very difficult to see this from the road now and very easy to miss. After stopping for directions, we still had to call the website for instruction. Both people swore we could see this from the road but we found a fenced off area
And squinted through the trees and could eventually only just make it out. In order to see the display at all the gate has to be open and you have to climb a pretty steep hill. Fair warning for anyone with mobility concerns. It was cool to see, but with the peeled paint and trek, I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily worth it.

Styrofoam painted grey by a wanna be weird al yankovic
In a muddy field, not worth the stop really.
Lived in the area for years, gone for a couple years now. Not worth the stop. head to the next town. :) Good for kids on DRY days otherwise it’s a mud wrestling match.

The perfect way to start off an old time road trip experience.
I had heard of the attraction and just had to experience the kitschy awesomeness. Just a quick drive off the main highway, it was well-​marked and only required a short uphill walk to access. A perfect spot to take a few photo ops before continuing on your way.
Be sure to wear walking shoes as it was muddy and a bit slick the morning we stopped by. Also, read all the plaques as they are quite amusing.

To roam the fields of green, to see the giant blocks, laid by the druids and wonder about their meaning. If they were set as some sort of amazing clock designed over centuries, or simply some sort of pagan sacrificial spot? Perhaps we will never know.
Daring to venture ever closer to these amazing monuments, to wonder what hands hewed them from the very… blocks of foam?!?
Yes, the mighty Foamhenge is an incredible momnument set upon a hillside in rural Virginia. One that you might miss if you do not happen to look up at just the right moment. But you really should do your best not to miss it. Perhaps most of all because it is free, and what else are you going to do on this highway? Check out some dank and musty cave, or a bridge made of rock?
Make sure you check out the sign on your way up, as it tells you to leave the «art» alone, both because it is a felony and because the artist likes to keep an eye on his installation and he might act out on you if you destroy his creation.

You have to admire the humor of this place. Truly a tourist trap and def one of the funniest ones I have seen. This place was created as a «spoof» on the real stonehenge — however, it was made with foam. It truly is a great place for a laugh. Kids can surely enjoy it — just make sure they don’t rip any of it a part — that is a felony! And, beware if it rains, it gets rather muddy so you may want to avoid the area if it does.