Forest Virginia... Forest Virginia is the booming bedroom community for Lynchburg and Central Virginia. Building is on the rise! Forest offers convient shopping, recreation and beautiful homes. Forest is also know for the numerous small lakes. Many of the neighboorhoods center around these lakes giving home owners a tranquil place to rest and call home. As far as real estate in Forest, most homes in the Forest area start in the 200's and up. You may catch one lower but they are few an far between.  Forest is just on the edge of Lynchburg, so you can run to town in a jiffy, it is also only 15 minute from Bedford.