Belle Brown Northcott Memorial

Wasted opportunity for the community to make some money. The bells ring for roughly 45 min but all tourists do is sit in their car and listen. If you had vendors there about 2 hours before and more chairs you could make this an even on the weekends. We enjoyed it and it should be on your to do list.

A quintessential carillon in a scenic park with gently rolling grass hills.
After completing the Tour of Page country road-​race, bicycle race, I was exhausted and rolled up to the scene of several (~20) people looking up at this tower. They invited me to join them as «you are just in time,» the carilloneur was scheduled to play at that moment.
America The Beautiful, This Is My Father’s World and others were hand-​played inside by pulling the levers and making the machine run that rings the hand-​tuned bells. Very cool as a «find,» though you have to be mellow and probably being something other than a typical ‘merican helps. I hear there are nice caverns nearby, and in Grottoes and a few more too.
Awesome brochure, gorgeous setting and weather in late April. Gorgeous area this time of year (lush green pastures all with black Angus cattle grazing, or Boer goats, flowering dogwood, apple, cherry, etc). During an August visit however, it was ridiculously hot, better for swimming at that time though.
Regarding the tower:
It was inspiring to read of the endowment set up to perpetuate the arts in this out of the way juris.
hours are quite specific, seasonal and «limited.» That said, a real person is actually playing this endowed (free) (outdoor seating) performance. You could easily listen from a vehicle, even with the windows 99% up, in case of inclement weather.

Recitals are posted on the sign. Do not miss!

Pardon the snark, but *REALLY*!!!
So my husband and I decide to visit Luray Caverns — and afterwards, finding some extra time on our hands, we decide to venture forth and check out all the glory that Luray has to offer. After all, it’s a famous landmark, and so, the nearby town *must* have sights to see, right?
So let me set the stage for you: it’s a beautiful, yet hot 90+ degree day. You just left the cool and majestic caverns and you spy this huge stone tower just past the Cavern parking lot.
«It looks interesting! Let’s go visit» you excitedly proclaim…
…and come across a big stone tower. Set in the middle of a field. With an ugly man-​made lake nearby.
There is a limp and soggy xeroxed pamphlet in a little box, which tells you the brief history of the Luray Singing Tower… riddled with grammatical mistakes and tragic misuse of prepositions.
The «singing» tower? Not that interesting. Made less so by a note that it only «sings» once a day… and even then, they don’t even take requests!
So yeah.
Luray Caverns = awesome. The rest of Luray = snooze-​fest. The Luray Singing Tower? That’s set dead center in the darkest part of Purgatory.