Meadows of Dan, VA

Meadows of Dan is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Patrick County, Virginia, United States, where the Blue Ridge Parkway crosses U.S. Route 58. The 2020 census counted 72 residents. There are numerous country shops, older houses, and restaurants in the community. Meadows of Dan is located near the Patrick/Floyd county line, approximately 20 miles east of Hillsville and about 14 miles northwest of Stuart. Meadows of Dan's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Virginia setting. The local scoop is how Meadows of Dan's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The community's name is credited to one of its earliest English settlers, James Steptoe Langhorne, and comes from the meadows that abound near the Dan River which flows through the area. Meadows of Dan includes the Man Who Moved a Mountain.