The most natural day trip from Williamsburg follows the Colonial Parkway, the 23-mile National Park Service road that connects Williamsburg to Jamestown and Yorktown without a single billboard or petrol station in sight. You can complete the full Historic Triangle loop — 1607 at Jamestown, the colonial capital here, the 1781 surrender at Yorktown — in a single unhurried afternoon, returning to Williamsburg for dinner.