GoOutdoorsVA

Go Outdoors Virginia

About this app

Do you hunt or fish in Virginia? This application is for you. Made available by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) and GoOutdoorsVirginia.com, this free application contains a variety of useful tools and information including:

- Store your license on your phone and sync recent purchases
- Access to hunting and fishing regulations, season and bag limit information, and state record fish
- Access to DWR’s hunting and fishing licensing system: GoOutdoorsVirginia.com
- Location based Sunrise/Sunset Timer and Moon Phases
- Prime wildlife feeding times
- Tides and Nautical weather
- Online Game Check and Boat renewals
- plus DWR news feeds

The application requires Internet access for some features. Let us know your ideas for improvements and future features. Go Outdoors Virginia!

Ratings and reviews

I really like it a lot and I love having the hunting & fishing regulations & lake fish size limits right at my fingertips. "BUT" it can be hard to find some things. For example: The age of your black bear, or the document for my grandson's citation bluegill. (Which by the way, I still have not found so I can print it off for him.) There is other thing's that are hard to find too, but you get the idea. Thank for the opportunity to comment!!! Sincerely, Craig Vandergriff

A recent update has made the license image unreadable due to its small size. It was previously working fine. I know it's surprising that a government agency would mess up something that was working well, but hey.... it's so hard to read now that I question its usefulness. Also, the app is named "GoOutdoorsVA" but would better be named "GoHunt&FishVA" since its really only aimed at people who are hunting or fishing (or boating, which is commonly associated with fishing...). Previous versions did a good job at giving license information, and I used the app last year to check in deer and to buy a license, so it worked for that, but it's not an app for hiking or birding, for example -- which are other reasons that people go outdoors. So it should be properly named, and readable.

Great convenience to access all the information on hunting fishing boating regulations. Love the feeding time chart. Plus being able to have all license in digital form takes some bulk out of the wallet! My only dislike is how much the cost to hunt and fish has gone up in last 30 years not to see a significant management of the waters and forests we hunt. Everything is still as it was 30+ years ago. Mainly in Shenandoah and Frederick Counties. Trout stocking isn't a great as it was either.

What's new

We're excited to announce the latest update to our application, which includes significant improvements to customer data syncing, user interface and general performance enhancements.