Roadtrip: Must View Spots Inwards N Carolina, Usa

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United States of North Carolina

North Carolina is a province inwards the Southeastern United States. The province borders South Carolina together with Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, together with the Atlantic Ocean to the east. It is the twelfth province inwards the USA; it became a province on Nov 21, 1789.

State Abbreviation - NC

State Capital - Raleigh
Largest City - Charlotte
Area - 53,821 foursquare miles [North Carolina is the 28th biggest state inwards the USA]
Population - 9,848,060 (as of 2013) [North Carolina is the tenth most populous province inwards the USA]
Name for Residents - North Carolinians
Major Industries - farming (tobacco, poultry), textiles, slice of furniture Major Rivers - Neuse River, Roanoke River, Yadkin River
Major Lakes - Lake Mattamuskeet, Lake Phelps, Lake Waccamaw
Highest Point - Mt. Mitchell - 6,684 feet (2,037 m) to a higher identify sea level
Number of Counties - 100
Bordering States - Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Origin of the Name North Carolina - North Carolina was named to accolade King Charles I (Carolus is Latin for Charles). State Nickname - Tar Heel State
State Motto - "Esse Quam Videri" (To Be Rather Than to Seem)
State Song - The Old North State

North Carolina activities together with attractions must see.

Destination: Introducing North Carolina!

I. Fayetteville, City inwards North Carolina

Fayetteville is a metropolis inwards Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county spot of Cumberland County, together with is best known equally the habitation of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.

1.) Airborne together with Special Operations Museum 

Address: 100 Bragg Boulevard, Fayetteville, NC 28301
Phone Number: 910.643.2766

The Airborne together with Special Operations Museum provides an educational resources for active-duty Soldiers together with civilians alike. Part of the Army Museum system, the 59,000 square-foot museum houses artifacts relating to airborne together with special operations units from 1940 to present. In add-on to the hundreds of personal items, uniforms together with weapons, displays include a C-46 "skytrain" bird suspended from the ceiling consummate alongside a jumper inwards the door, an extremely rare, fully restored WWII CG-4A combat glider, 2 helicopters together with a Sheridan Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle. The ASOM offers a specially designed cinema inwards its 235-seat Yarborough-Bank Theater. The film, "Descending from the Clouds," includes footage shot at several Army installations including Fort Bragg, together with shows dramatic scenes of airborne together with special operations Soldiers doing what they do best. The cinema is complemented past times the 24-seat Pitch, Roll & Yaw Motion Simulator, which allows visitors to bring together airborne together with special operations Soldiers equally they race across deserts, ski downwards snow-covered hills, freefall from an aircraft together with wing at tree-top level. 

Business Hours

Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Sunday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

The museum is closed on Mondays together with Federal holidays.

The museum volition live opened upwardly on Memorial Day, Independence Day, together with Veteran’s Day. We are closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day together with Easter.

Admission
Museum Exhibits: Admission to the museum is free; donations are graciously accepted.

Simulator: The Motion Simulator is $5 per ticket. Any patron less than 36 inches tall may ride the simulator for half-price. Tickets are available inwards the gift shop, which has an outstanding pick of airborne together with special operations books, prints, clothing, jewelry together with other specialty items. 

2.) 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum 
Address: Ardennes Street, Building C-6841, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, NC 28310 

Phone Number: (910) 432-3443

The 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum is i of the oldest together with largest organizational museums inwards the Army system. With over 5,000 artifacts inwards the collection, together with over i one 1000 1000 photographs together with documents inwards the archives, annual museum attendance exceeds 75,000. Visit the museum to larn 82nd history from World War I, including SGT Alvin York, to the present. You volition consider the uniforms of Generals Ridge way together with Gavin, equipment together with weapons from Troopers of America's Guard of Honor from 1917 to the present, equally good equally captured unusual equipment together with weapons. 

The museum's Airpark displays aircraft from various periods of airborne history, including a C-47, C-46, C-119, C-123, C-7, together with C-130, equally good equally numerous artillery pieces. Outside at that spot are a number of memorials together with monuments, from the official Division Monument to the Global War on Terrorism Memorial, honoring the sacrifices together with courage of our All Americans. The museum's theatre shows a 25 infinitesimal motion-picture demo on 82d history every hour, together with nosotros invite y'all to sentiment this first, so tour our primary 5,000 pes gallery. Average recommended fourth dimension to sense everything on site is virtually 2 hours. If y'all are inwards the expanse during Easter, Halloween together with Christmas, cheque out our free, fun family-oriented activities. Group tours are welcome together with encouraged, delight telephone phone (910) 432-3443 for to a greater extent than information together with scheduling your group.

Business Hours Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM Sun together with Monday closed alongside exception of Federal holidays except for Thanksgiving, Christmas together with New Year's Day. 3.) Market House Address: 28301 Intersections of Hay, Gillespie, Person together with Green Streets, Fayetteville, NC Phone Number: 910-483-2073 The Market House built inwards 1832 on the site of the 1788 State House, which was destroyed inwards the Great Fire of 1831. Historically meat together with create together with other goods were sold beneath, spell the 2d flooring was utilized equally the town hall. It served equally Fayetteville Town Hall until 1907. The cupola bell withal rings breakfast, dinner, sundown, together with curfew. Occasionally slaves were sold at Market Square together with the vast bulk of these sales were equally a lawsuit of indebtedness or estate liquidation. During the Civil War, a skirmish took identify around the Market House involving Confederate Hampton's together with Union General Sherman's troops. After the Civil War, the Market House remained an of import component of the civic together with economical life of Fayetteville, functioning equally an opened upwardly marketplace into the 20th century. The upstairs room withal serves equally coming together space. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. The Market House Museum is located on the 2d flooring together with features 'rotating monthly, special-emphasis Market House exhibits'. Today, the Market House is i of the xl National Landmarks inwards North Carolina. 4.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden Address: 536 North Eastern Boulevard, Fayetteville, NC Phone Number: (910) 486-0221 x 27

Cape Fear Botanical Garden is a nonprofit botanical garden. It is opened upwardly to the world daily; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established inwards 1989 to serve both Fayetteville Technical Community College horticulturists together with southeastern North Carolina. It conserves together with displays flora species together with the flora communities of the Cape Fear River basin. The garden contains nature trails, a natural amphitheater, steep ravines alongside unusual plants, together with a varied riparian terrain ranging from pine forest through hardwood hills to river banks. 

Garden Members: FREE

General Admission: $10.00*

Military (with ID): $9.00

Adults 65 & Older: $9.00

Children ages 6-12: $5.00

Children 5 together with under: FREE

Your admission receipt is worth the coin together with may live applied towards a membership purchased on the same 24-hour interval of your visit!

Business Hours

Daily Hours: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Last admission is at 4:15 PM

Winter Hours:
Mon., Nov. 3, 2014 through Sun., March 1, 2015.
Daily: 10:00 AM 4:00 PM
Last admission is at 3:15 PM
Hours may alter during inclement weather. 

Photography Disclaimer

During your see y'all may live filmed, videotaped, and/or photographed past times a Garden employee or contract photographer. Your admission serves equally permission for the usage of your paradigm past times the Garden together with its constituents.

Restrictions 

Pets, bicycles together with recreational vehicles are non permitted. 

Outside nutrient together with beverages may non live brought into the Garden.

Cape Fear Botanical Garden is a non-smoking facility both indoors together with outdoors.

Holidays
The Garden is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Holiday from Dec 24th – 26th, New Year’s Eve together with New Year’s Day. 

5.) Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex 

Address: 801 Arsenal Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28305

Phone Number: (910) 486-1330

The Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex is a museum about the history together with cultural heritage of southern North Carolina. Opened inwards 1988 together with located inwards Fayetteville, the museum is a regional branch of the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. The complex includes the primary history museum, the 1897 Poe House, together with Arsenal Park.

Exhibits at the museum include Native Americans, European explorers together with settlers, slavery, shipping by plank roads and steamboat, local industries including the textile industry and naval stores industry, the history of Fayetteville during the American Civil War, natural history and folk pottery. An early on twentieth century general store with menstruum trade is on display.

1897 E.A Poe House

The 1897 Poe House is a historic work solid museum that has been furnished for the late Victorian period. Docent-led tours hash out the changes inwards the era's social, cultural together with household unit of measurement history. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Arsenal Park

Arsenal Park, located behind the museum, is a iv together with a one-half acre commons that features the remains of the Fayetteville Confederate arsenal that was destroyed past times Gen. William T. Sherman and his 60,000-man regular army inwards March 1865. The museum maintains the park.

Admission Fee is Free.

Business Hours

Tues-Sat: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday: 01:00 PM – 5:00 PM

II. Raleigh & Durham, cities of North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the province of North Carolina as good equally the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known equally the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets inwards the pump of the city. The metropolis covers a Earth expanse of 142.8 foursquare miles (370 km2). It is also i of the fastest-growing cities inwards the country. The metropolis of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County.

Raleigh is habitation to North Carolina State University and is component of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham (home of Duke University) and Chapel Hill (home of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The "Triangle" nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located inwards Durham & Wake Counties partway betwixt the 3 cities together with their universities. 

1.) North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Address: 11 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601

Phone Number: (919) 707-9800

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM) is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This museum is the oldest established museum in North Carolina and the largest museum of its sort inwards the Southeast. It has virtually 1.2 i 1000 1000 visitors annually. As of 2013, it was the state's most pop museum or historic goal amid visitors.

The museum's campus consists of iv facets: the Nature Exploration Center (NEC; formerly the "Main Building") together with the Nature Research Center on Jones Street inwards Downtown Raleigh, the Prairie Ridge Eco station satellite facility together with outdoor classroom inwards northwest Raleigh near William B. Umstead State Park, together with the North Carolina Museum of Forestry located in Whiteville, North Carolina.

Featuring an array of permanent together with special exhibits, live programs together with educational films that appeal to audiences of all ages, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences encourages visitors to explore the natural reason together with their connections to it.

General Admission is free, although donations are cheerfully accepted. There is a embrace accuse for the World's Largest Dinosaurs special exhibit and 3D movies. Discounts are available!

Children nether sixteen must live accompanied past times an adult.

Nature Research Center Hours
Monday–Wednesday, Fri & Saturday: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Thursdays and First Fridays: 9:00 AM-9:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 PM–5:00 PM
 
Nature Exploration Center Hours
Monday–Wednesday, Fri & Saturday: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Thursdays: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
First Fridays: 9:00 AM-9:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 PM–5:00 PM

Notes: The Living Conservatory is closed on Mondays. 

2.) North Carolina Museum of History

Address: 5 East Edenton Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

Phone Number: 919-807-7900

An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the North Carolina Museum of History is located inwards downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Admission is free. Special programs include educational programs for children together with families equally good equally arts and crafts demonstrations, music concerts, together with other events for visitors together with members.

The Museum Shop features an assortment of North Carolina–made crafts together with products. The museum is a component of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives together with History, an means of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

Business Hours

Monday–Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Closed New Year's Day, Easter, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, together with Christmas Day.

Admission
Free (charge for some special exhibits)

3.) The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts

Address: 2 E South St, Raleigh, NC 27601

A. Memorial Auditorium

Opened inwards 1932, Memorial Auditorium is the crown gem of North Carolina performing arts. Over the years, this richly historic theatre has played host to a dazzling spectrum of artists together with performances. Just a sample of the listing chop-chop becomes dizzying: Sinatra, Gillespie, Baryshnikov, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Itzhak Perlman, Natalie Cole together with Prince. Broadway blockbusters similar Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s The Lion King, Bailiwick of Jersey Boys, Miss Saigon, together with Rent have got also been staged here.

B. Fletcher Opera Theater

The A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater is the epicenter for opera together with trip the low-cal fantastic toe inwards the North Carolina. This 600-seat theatre offers an intimacy perfect for such performances, alongside the farthest balcony spot less than seventy feet from the stage.

C. Meymandi Concert Hall

The North Carolina Symphony calls this remarkable, 1700-seat venue home. And it’s tardily to consider why. Its 65-ft ceiling, unique shoe box shape, narrow sides, shallow balconies together with lack of proscenium all piece of work together to deliver the warmest, clearest together with most immersive audio sense possible. National together with international artists together with performers right away verbalise of this hall’s remarkable acoustics.

D. Kennedy Theater

The novel 170-seat, xl x 60-foot black-box experimental theatre fuses intimacy alongside energy, the deeply personal alongside the universal theatre experience. The KD & Sara Lynn Kennedy Theater provides performance infinite for innovative groups including Hot Summer Nights.

4.) Lake Johnson Park

Address: 4601 Avent Ferry Rd. Raleigh, NC 27606
Phone Number: (919) 233-2121

Lake Johnson Park comprises to a greater extent than than 300 acres of Earth surrounding the lake of 150+ acres. The lake/park offers boating (johnboats, paddle-boats, canoes, kayaks, sailboats together with personal launches—non-motorized, no trailered), picnic shelters, concessions, facility rentals, green-way trails together with a vast array of classes, special events and recreational opportunities for the entire family. The lake is bully for line-fishing of large-mouth bass, crunch cracker, crappie, bream, catfish together with carp. Admission is free. Boat launch together with facility are for rent. Hours: Daily, sunrise-sunset. 

5.) Adventure Landing

Address: 3311 Capital Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone Number: 919-872-1688

Current Operating Schedule:
Monday-Thursday & Sunday  Friday-Saturday	10:00 AM - 10:00 PM* 10:00 AM - Midnight*

*excluding individual events.

We reserve the correct to unopen before or opened upwardly later on than posted hours due to ho-hum work concern or bad weather.

Our Mega-Arcade, Go-Karts, Miniature Golf, Laser Tag, together with Batting Cages are opened upwardly every 24-hour interval of the year, including holidays alongside the exception of Christmas Day! 

Miniature Golf Season Passes
Now Available!
Regular Price: $79.99
Sale Price: $59.99

Buy Online >> Save $20 on each pass!

An Adventure Landing Miniature Golf Season Pass is valid at every Adventure Landing location.

Special: 3-Attraction Quest Pass*

For a express time, save $2 on each hand when y'all purchase online!
Regular: 3 Attractions for $16.99
Sale: 3 Attractions for $14.99

Buy Online >> *Must live used past times the same guest. Choose whatever combination of 3 of the next unmarried attractions: Mini Golf Game, Laser Tag Session, Go-Kart Ride.

Go-Karts
Single Go-Kart Ride          $7.50
Double Go-Kart Ride         $9

Appropriate Footwear Required for Rider together with Driver. No Flip Flops Allowed.  Fastened Sandals are allowed.

Golf
1 Game                              $7.50
2 Games                            $8.50
10 Game Family Ticket       $40
1 Child Game (Ages 4-5)     $5.50
2 Child Games* (Ages 4-5)  $6.50

All children 3 together with under are free.
*Must live used by the same person. 

Arcade Tokens
4 Tokens                           $1
44 Tokens                         $10
100 Tokens                       $20
300 Tokens                       $50

New Online Special Only!
320 Tokens                       $50
650 Tokens                       $100

Buy Tickets Online >>

Laser Tag

Gen. Admission                 $7.50

Batting Cages
1 Token                            $2
1/2 Hour Rental                 $20
1 Hour Rental                    $30
3 Tokens                           $5
(Each Token gets y'all 25 pitches.  Cage Rental prices are per cage.)

• Batters must live at to the lowest degree six years of age.
• Batters ages 6-12 must live accompanied past times an adult.
• Batters must live at to the lowest degree sixteen years of historic menstruum to usage the real fast baseball game cage.

Specials
All You Can Play Days:                           $10.99
Mondays & Thursdays ONLY
Open - 6:00 PM
Unlimited Miniature Golf, Laser Tag,
& 10 Arcade Tokens

Buy Online >>

Super Saturdays:                                    $9.99
Open - 12:00 PM
Unlimited Miniature Golf, Laser Tag,
& xxx Arcade Tokens

Buy Online >> Pricing is per soul per attraction.
10% discount for Military (must demo armed services ID).
10% off for seniors.

6.) Wheels Family Fun Park

Address: 715 N Hoover Rd, Durham, NC 27703
Phone Number: (919) 598-1944

Wheels Fun Park is pay per play park, each attraction has its ain admission including the roller skating rink, play gym, go-karts, batting cages, mini golf, skateboard commons together with amazing maze. 

Business Hours
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 09:00 PM
Some attractions may opened upwardly later on inwards the day

• Roller Skating -$8.00
• Play Gym -$7.00
• Go Karts - Single Seater - $6.00; Double Seater - $7.00
• Batting Cages - 1 Token - $1.00, six Tokens -$6.00, sixteen pitches per token
• Mini Golf - 18 holes - $7.00 per person
• Amazing Maze -1 run -$6.00, 2 runs-$8.00, 3 runs -$10.00
• Skateboard Park - Skate all 24-hour interval -$6.50 per person

7.) Frankies Fun Park

Address: 11190 Fun Park Drive Raleigh, NC 27617
Phone Number: (919) 433-7888

Business Hours

Mon - Thursday: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Fri & Saturday: 10:00 AM - Midnight
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Some attractions may opened upwardly later on inwards the day

• Mini Golf - $7.00, 3 years younger play for free
• Road Course - $7.00, Drivers must live 54 inches tall. Two Seater drivers must live sixteen years old alongside valid ID. Passengers must live 36 inches tall. Passengers less than 54 inches ride costless alongside paid adult.
• Fun House -$8.00, Ages 2-12 years old
• Laser Tag -$7.00, for ages six years old together with older
• Batting cage - $2.00, Must have on security helmet. Children nether the historic menstruum of six years old must live accompanied past times an adult.
• Arcade
• Drop Zone - $5.00, Must live 42 inches tall to ride without an adult, rider 38 inches to 42 inches must ride alongside an adult.
• Sky Trail -$7.00, Must live at to the lowest degree 48 inches tall.
  
  
• Spider Web -$5.00, Must live at to the lowest degree 48 inches tall to play
• Sidewinder -$6.00, Must live at to the lowest degree 52 inches tall to ride.
  
  
• Rookie Tracks -$6.00, Drivers must live 48 inches tall.
  
  
• Bumper Boats -$7.00, Drivers must live 44 inches tall; passengers must live 36 inches tall.
  
  
• Shamrock Slick Track -$7.00, Driver must live sixteen years old
  
  

8.) Marbles Kids Museum & I Max Theater
Address: 201 East Hargett Street | Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone Number: 919.834.4040

Marbles Kids Museum is a hands-on uncovering museum located close Moore Square inwards Raleigh. It has a various programming schedule that makes it a fun identify to see i time again together with again. Additionally, the museum is habitation to the region's solely IMAX Theater.

Permanent exhibits include:

• Around Town - a pint-size version of our community where kids take accuse together with Pb the way.
• Idea Works - design, create together with build structures, vehicles, simple machines together with everyday products.
• Art Loft - paint, draw, sculpt together with explore various types of artwork.
• BB&T Storybook Forest - wonderful woodland setting live alongside reading, storytelling, together with dramatic grapheme play.

Business Hours
Monday: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Tuesday – Sunday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (open until 7pm every Th together with on First Friday)

Admission

$5 per person; children nether 1 together with members play free

9.) North Carolina Museum of Art 

Address: 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Raleigh, NC 27607-6494

Phone Number: (919) 839-6262

The NC Museum of Art is i of the Triangle's favorite cultural attractions. Located inwards Raleigh, it curates a large permanent collection equally good equally hosts major traveling fine art exhibitions. It offers a frequent diversity of programming ranging from children's activities to didactics programs, outdoor concerts to cinema screenings.

The museum of late underwent a major renovation together with expansion. The 127,000 sq.ft edifice features 24-hour interval lit galleries surrounded past times beautiful outdoor gardens showcasing large-scale sculpture. Permanent collection highlights include a gift of xxx sculptures past times Auguste Rodin together with piece of work past times such internationally acclaimed artists equally Roxy Paine, Ursula von Rydingsvard, El Anatsui, Jaume Plensa, Jackie Ferrara, Ellsworth Kelly, together with David Park. 

The 164-acre campus is the nation’s largest fine art museum park, alongside walking paths, bike trails, ecological projects conceived alongside artists, together with site-specific commissioned works of fine art inwards a rolling light-green landscape.

The museum's interior restaurant, Iris, features a sophisticated bill of fare inwards a contemporary, modern setting. It is the frequent site of special art/food events. It is regularly opened upwardly for tiffin Tuesday-Saturday, dinner on Friday, together with brunch on Sunday. Reservations are recommended. 

Admission to the NC Museum of Art's permanent collections is free. Admission to the museum's special exhibits commonly is not.

Business Hours
Tuesday – Thursday: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Friday: 10:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Monday: Closed

10.) Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Address: 420 Anderson St, Durham, NC 27708

Phone Number: 919-668-1707, (919) 684-3698

Duke Gardens is a 55-acre world botanic garden on the campus of Duke University. It is a identify of beauty, dedicated to learning, inspiration together with enjoyment through excellence inwards horticulture.

Founded inwards 1934, Duke Gardens is right away considered one of the top 10 world gardens inwards the United States.

It features iv distinct gardens, each alongside its ain focus together with flavor: the Historic Gardens, including the pop Terrace Gardens, dedicated inwards 1939; the H.L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants, a representation of the flora of the southeastern United States; the W.L. Culberson Asiatic Arboretum, devoted to plants of eastern Asia; together with the Doris Duke Center Gardens, including the new Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden. There are 5 miles of allées, walks, together with pathways throughout the Gardens, together with many shaded benches.

Duke Gardens also has a café, a gift shop, together with a visitor middle alongside an elegant rental hall for marriage receptions, meetings together with other occasions.

They offering classes inwards gardening, photography together with natural history, equally good equally tours, costless drop-in programs for families, spring suspension together with summertime camps, school programs, and volunteer opportunities. They also host Duke Performances’ Music inwards the Gardens summer outdoor concert series. 

The grounds are opened upwardly from 8 a.m. to dusk 365 days a year, together with admission is free.

11.) Museum of Life together with Science

Address: 433 W. Murray Avenue Durham, NC 27704

Phone Number: (919) 220-5429

Located just blocks from downtown Durham, the Museum of Life together with Science is i of North Carolina’s top household unit of measurement destinations. Situated on 84-acres, our interactive scientific discipline commons includes a two-story scientific discipline center, i of the largest butterfly conservatories on the East Coast together with beautifully landscaped outdoor exhibits which are safe havens for rescued dark bears, lemurs, together with endangered ruby wolves. Other pop attractions include over threescore species of live animals, Dinosaur Trail, Ellerbe Creek Railway, and Into the Mist.

Monday: Closed

Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Members-only access at 9:00 AM Tues–Sat
Sunday: 12:00 PM-5:00 PM 

Admission Prices*

$14.50 Adults
$12     Seniors (age 65+)
$12     U.S. Military w/ID
$10     Children ages 3-12
$8       non schoolhouse grouping rate

FREE   Members
FREE   Children historic menstruum 2 together with under

*Effective Jan. 1, 2015 admission fees plain of study to 7.5% sales tax

Train Ride

$3 Members

$3.50 Non-Members

$5   Take Off! Bungee (open March–Sept)

Amenities

Free parking
Stroller rentals
Picnic area
Basic outset aid
Wheelchairs

Dining together with Shopping

Sprout Cafe
Elements Museum Store & Coffee Bar
Gizmo Garage

III. Chapel Hill is a metropolis in Orange County, North Carolina (with some eastern portions in Durham County)

1.) North Carolina Botanical Gardens

Address: 100 Old Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27517

Phone Number: (919) 962-0522

The North Carolina Botanical Garden is a "conservation garden." Their guiding mission is to inspire understanding, appreciation, together with conservation of plants inwards gardens together with natural areas together with to advance a sustainable human relationship betwixt people together with nature. 

Business Hours

Weekdays: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Offices together with exhibits opened upwardly at 9:00 AM; Gift Shop opens at 10:00 AM)

Saturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (6:00 PM from June-August)

Sunday: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (6:00 PM from June-August) 

Admission: Free to the world (though nosotros welcome donations).

2.) Kidzu Children’s Museum

Address: 201 S. Estes Drive inwards University Mall, Chapel Hill.

Phone Number: 919-933-1455

Kidzu Children's Museum is a children's museum aimed at pre-school through simple ages. The museum was established inwards 2006 inwards a store forepart on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina near the intersection of Columbia. The museum shortly outgrew the location together with began looking for larger space. 

In Nov 2011, after construction delays pushed dorsum the displace to a larger space, the museum temporarily moved to University Square spell their permanent habitation at Wallace Plaza is constructed. The novel planned infinite volition characteristic 15,000 foursquare feet (1,400 m2) of indoor space, 7 times what has previously been available, along alongside outdoor infinite non available before. In Feb of 2014, Kidzu reopened in University Mall in Chapel Hill. The museum volition live located hither until Wallace Plaza construction is consummate inwards 2017.

IV.) Asheboro is a metropolis inwards together with the county seat of Randolph County, North Carolina, United States

1.) North Carolina Zoological Park

Address: 4401 Zoo Pkwy, Asheboro, NC 27205

Phone Number: (336) 879-7000

The NC Zoological Society is a private, 501(c) 3, non-profit arrangement that supports the conservation, education, together with query together with recreation missions of the North Carolina Zoo. The NC Zoo Society funds Zoo programs that conserve wildlife, protect wild environments, behaviour query together with supply recreational experiences that strengthen the bonds betwixt people together with wildlife. The Society also funds Zoo programs that protect the well-being of animals that live inwards zoos or inwards the wild. 

The North Carolina Zoological Park is located in Asheboro in Randolph County, North Carolina in the Uwharrie Mountains near the geographic middle of the state, some 75 miles (121 km) due west of Raleigh, NC, United States. At over 2,000 acres (810 ha), it is the largest walk-through zoo in the world, together with i of solely 2 state-owned zoos inwards the United States. The NC Zoo has over 1600 animals from to a greater extent than than 250 species primarily representing Africa together with North America. The zoo is opened upwardly 364 days a yr together with receives to a greater extent than than 700,000 visitors annually.

Admission prices attain from $14.00 to $18.00 together with tin can solely live purchased at the Zoo admissions windows. Duration is i day.

Business Hours

Daily: 09:00 AM 5:00 PM

V. Asheville is a metropolis inwards together with the county spot of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest metropolis inwards Western North Carolina, together with the 11th largest metropolis inwards North Carolina.

1.  Biltmore Estate

Address: 1 Lodge St, Asheville, NC 28803

Phone Number: (800) 411-3812

Biltmore Estate is a large individual estate together with tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House, the primary work solid on the estate, is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 together with 1895 together with is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 foursquare feet (16,622.8 m2) of flooring infinite (135,280 foursquare feet (12,568 m2) of living area). Still owned past times i of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today equally i of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age. In 2007, it was ranked 8th in America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects. 

Estate Transportation together with Parking

A auto is required for locomote betwixt locations on the estate. We offering a shuttle from Biltmore House parking lots to the forepart door of the house. Shuttles from the work solid to the Conservatory are available Apr through December. Transportation is non provided betwixt Biltmore House together with Antler Hill Village & Winery.

Parking is costless together with assistance is available for guests alongside state-issued parking permits. For assistance, contact the outset available parking host. Biltmore House together with Antler Hill Village & Winery have got parking lots within walking distance. Parking located next to the Conservatory is express together with provides wheelchair access to the Walled Garden. 

Biltmore guests are often surprised past times the size of the estate, so it is of import to programme before your arrival. 

Biltmore House

Open Mon - Fri 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Open Sabbatum together with Sun 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM 

Winery inwards Antler Hill Village

Open Sun - Th 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Open Fri together with Sabbatum 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM 

Reception & Ticketing Sales Center

Open Sun - Th 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Open Fri together with Sabbatum 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM 

Gardens

Open daily 9:00 AM – Dusk 

Conservatory

Open daily 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM 

The Biltmore Legacy inwards Antler Hill Village

Open Sun - Th 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Open Fri together with Sabbatum 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM 

Antler Hill Barn

Open daily 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM 

Farmyard at the Antler Hill Farm

Open daily 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM 

Bike Barn inwards Antler Hill Village

CLOSED

Outdoor Adventure Center inwards Antler Hill Village

Open daily 10:00 AM– 5:00 PM 

Deerpark Carriage & Trail Barns

Open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Regular Admission:

ADULT DAYTIME: SAME DAY PRICE - $49.00 - $60.00

YOUTH (10-16) DAYTIME: SAME DAY PRICE - $24.50 - $29.50

Your daytime admission includes:

• A self-guided see of Biltmore House
• Access to our historic gardens together with Antler Hill Village
• Admission to our exhibition, The Vanderbilts at Home together with Abroad
• Free vino tasting together with guided Winery tour
• Prices are plain of study to alter together with non applicable to groups

VI.) Blue Ridge Parkway

Address: 2551 Mountain View Rd, Vinton, VA 24179

Phone Number: (828) 271-4779

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway, which is America's longest linear park, runs for 469 miles (755 km) through twenty-nine Virginia together with North Carolina counties, generally along the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is component of the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels due north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive. While the 2 roads bring together together end-to-end, they are dissever together with distinct entities, built equally 2 dissimilar projects together with managed past times 2 dissimilar National Park Service units. The Blue Ridge Parkway was built to connect Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Parkway, spell non a "National Park," has been the most visited unit of measurement of the National Park System every yr since 1946 except i (1949). Land on either side of the road is owned together with maintained past times the National Park Service and, inwards many places; parkway Earth is bordered by United States Forest Service property. 

Travel Regulations

To aid protect together with preserve the Blue Ridge Parkway, yourself, together with others, observe all commons regulations. Be warning for uncontrolled fire, security hazards, accidents together with emergencies. Please study such conditions past times calling 1-800-PARKWATCH (1-800) 727-5928).

For full general Parkway information, telephone phone (828) 298-0398 or visit www.nps.gov/blri. To have got printed information mailed to you, write to the Blue Ridge Parkway Association at PO Box 2136, Asheville, NC 28802.

• Drive Carefully. The maximum speed bound is 45 miles per hour. Report whatever accident to a Park Ranger. Commercial vehicles are non permitted on the Parkway. Bicycles together with motorized vehicles are non permitted on Parkway trails.
• Roadside Parking. Parking is express to designated parking areas or route shoulders. All iv wheels must live off the pavement.
• Trails. Bicycles together with motorized vehicles are non permitted on Parkway trails.
• Camping. Camping is permitted solely inwards commons campgrounds or designated back-country sites.
• Pets. Dogs together with other pets must live on a leash or nether physical restraint at all times spell inwards the Park. The territorial instinct of dogs tin can Pb to fights alongside other dogs on the trail. Dogs also frighten hikers together with chase wildlife. If a pet cannot live kept nether control, it should live left at home.
• Do non swim inwards Parkway lakes together with ponds. They are for line-fishing together with scenic beauty only. Swimming facilities are available inwards nearby U.S. woods Services recreation areas, province parks, together with mount resorts.
• Prevent Forest Fires. Fires, including charcoal grills, are permitted inwards campgrounds together with picnic areas only.
• Boats without motor or sail are permitted on Price Lake.
• Deposit all litter inwards the trash cans provided at trail heads, parking overlooks, together with picnic areas.
• Metal detectors are prohibited.
• Natural resources are protected past times Federal law. Do non disturb beast together with flora life inwards whatever way. Hunting, trapping together with possession of whatever contraband substances are prohibited. Do non interfere alongside animals past times feeding, touching, or frightening them. Do non cut, deface, or harm trees. Leave wildflowers together with other vegetation inwards their natural status for other hikers to enjoy.
• Historic resources are protected past times Federal law. Do non damage, deface, or take away whatever of these structures, furnishings, or exhibits.
• Alcoholic Beverages are permitted in campgrounds past times registered campers together with inwards picnic areas until nine pm.
• Possession of opened upwardly containers of alcoholic beverages prohibited in motor vehicles is prohibited.

Important Tips

• Lock valuables inwards the body of your auto or take them alongside you.
• Hiking shoes or boots are recommended for most trails, specially the to a greater extent than strenuous ones. Steep together with rocky areas together with slippery flow crossings require extra attending together with careful footing. Even for trails marked "easy," it is advisable to have on apartment or rubber-soled shoes for comfort together with proficient traction. Wearing sandals, "flip-flops," or high heels tin can lawsuit inwards accidents.
• Sudden changes inwards conditions are mutual inwards these mountains. Even inwards mild seasons, rapid dips inwards temperature together with unexpected thunderstorms oftentimes occur, together with at higher elevations the current of air together with temperature tin can carry a surprising chill. Be prepared for conditions changes past times bringing along suitable clothing.
• For your security together with the protection of the resources, rest on established trails. Shortcutting at switchbacks causes soil erosion, disfigures the trail, together with makes it hard for other hikers to regain their way. Take payoff of log walkways, steps, or other trail construction. They are at that spot to minimize human impact on the natural environment.
• Do non imbibe the H2O inwards streams or springs. Bacterial diseases tin can live contracted past times drinking untreated "wild" waters.

Parkway Road Conditions

An opened upwardly Parkway is a safe Parkway.  Be certain to cheque route conditions online or past times telephone before y'all locomote together with during your visit.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is opened upwardly yr circular except for sections that may live closed due to H2O ice together with snow, tempest damage, or for construction or maintenance activities.  Blue Ridge Parkway route closure information is available online through a real-time route closure map provided past times the National Park Service, or past times calling the recorded Park Information Line at 828-298-0398. 

Many factors touching on the removal of H2O ice together with snow, such equally extreme temperatures, lack of sunlight inwards constantly shaded areas, or thawing together with refreezing on bridges.  This may drive some sections to live closed for extended periods inwards the winter.  These sections are solely opened when they are safe for travel.  Some sections of the Parkway cannot live gated together with closed, together with visitors should do extreme caution when traveling inwards these areas during the winter.

Weather-related closures tin can alter chop-chop during the winter.  It is best to telephone phone the information line both before together with during your visit.

Things to Do

1.     Camping on the Parkway

Camping is a traditional together with enjoyable way to taste National Parks. On the Blue Ridge Parkway, 7 campgrounds serve the visitor from early on May through the autumn color season.

Camping is permitted solely inwards designated campsites.

Parkway Campgrounds:

• Otter Creek (MP 61): This campground has sites for 45 tents together with 24 RV trailers. Facilities currently include water, comfort stations alongside level toilets together with sinks but no showers or hook-ups. Area hikes include: Trail of Trees, Otter Creek, Otter Lake Loop together with James River Canal Trails.
• Peaks of Otter (MP 86): This campground has sites for ninety tents together with 53 trailers or RV's, water, comfort stations alongside level toilets together with mutual frigidity H2O sinks but no showers or hook-ups.  Area hikes include: Sharp Top, Elk Run, Harkening Hill together with Johnson Farm Trails.
• Rocky Knob (MP 167):This campground has sites for 81 tents together with 28 trailer or RV's, restrooms, together with trailer dumping stations, together with campfire circle that accommodates upwardly to 150 campers. Area hikes include: Rockcastle Gorge, Black Ridge, Rocky Knob Picnic Area together with Round Meadow Creek Trails.
• Doughton Park (MP 241):This campground has 110 campsites together with 25 trailer sites, 4 comfort stations, together with a campfire circle at the campground. 
• Area hikes include: Bluff Mountain, together with Fodder Stack Trails.
• Julian Price Park (MP 297): This campground has 129 tent sites (2 handicap sites) together with 68 trailer sites, six comfort stations (1 handicap accessible). For boat rental information telephone phone 828-963-2292 or visit http://pricelakeboatrentals.wix.com/blueridgeparkway Area hikes include: Green Knob, Boone Fork, Price Lake, Gwyn Memorial together with Tanawha Trails.
• Linville Falls (MP 316): This campground has 50 tent together with 20 RV sites which sit down on the banks of the Linville River. It is the Parkway's smallest, most pop campground together with the solely developed site on the Parkway that allows grouping camping. Area hikes include: Flat Rock, Camp Creek, River Bend, Duggers Creek, together with Linville River Bridge Trails
• Mt. Pisgah (MP 408): This campground has seventy tent together with seventy RV sites together with shower facilities are available. The campground is the highest, coolest together with most secluded on the Parkway. The campground is located inwards Flat Laurel Gap. Area hikes include: Buck Spring, Mount Pisgah, Picnic Area Loop together with Frying Pan Mountain Trails.

Camping is $16 for each site. Reservations for portions for ALL campgrounds tin can live made online atrecreation.gov or past times calling 1-877-444-6777.

2.     Hiking Trails

There are numerous trails suitable for hiking along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Find out virtually trails close y'all past times stopping at ranger station or visitor middle for information. Trail conditions may alter all of a abrupt together with unexpectedly. Bear activity, pelting or thunder storms, together with downed trees may temporarily unopen trails. At a minimum, carry water, a raincoat or poncho, a warm hat, insect repellent, sunscreen, together with a outset aid kit. It is recommended that y'all hike alongside some other person. No permit is required for hiking.

One of the most daunting tasks facing hikers is choosing a trail. There are over 369 miles of trails to pick out from amid the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Below is a listing of pop trails along the Parkway.

Ridge District (MP 0-106)	Plateau District (MP 107-216)	Highlands District (MP 217-305)	Pisgah District (MP-306-469)
Humpback Rocks	Roanoke Valley	Cumberland Knob	Linville Falls
Otter Creek & James River	Rocky Knob	Doughton Park	Crabtree Falls
Peaks of Otter		Moses Cone	Craggy Gardens
		Julian Price Park	Mt. Pisgah
		Tanawah

The Appalachian Trail and Mountains to Sea Trail are 2 long distance trails that follow closely alongside stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Sections of these trails tin can live hiked inwards a day, or for the to a greater extent than adventurous, over a number of days.

If y'all similar hiking inwards groups, the Carolina Mountain Club has various opportunities to bring together hikes together with fifty-fifty volunteer on trail piece of work around the Asheville area.

3.     Ranger Led-Programs

All developed areas along the Blue Ridge Parkway offering ranger led programs, arts and crafts workshops, music of the region, or other educational programs that volition bring upwardly your family's see to this national commons area. Take your fourth dimension to investigate the specific computer program schedule inwards each expanse together with brand plans to attend!

Parkway partner groups supply volunteer together with fiscal back upwardly to insure household unit of measurement friendly together with high quality programs along the Parkway. Special thank y'all the next organizations for their continued support.

4.     Picnicking

Picnicking along the Parkway is real pop for visitors who are driving through. Every picnic expanse has tables. You tin can usage camping ground stoves together with self-contained charcoal grills to ready nutrient at whatever picnic area. Each picnic expanse has bathrooms. Camping is non allowed inwards whatever picnic area.

See below for a listing of developed picnic areas along the parkway.

Milepost	Picnic Area	No. Sites
8.5	Humpback Rocks	91
86.0	Peaks of Otter	62
154.5	Smart View	42
169	Rocky Knob	72
188	Groundhog Mountain	26
217.5	Cumberland Knob	33
239.2	Doughton Park	56
271.9	Jeffress Park	30
296.4	Julian Price Park	100
367.6	Craggy Gardens	86
407.8	Mt. Pisgah	50

5.     Kayaking/ Canoeing

Price Lake is a 47 acre lake inwards which visitors are currently able to rent Canoes together with Kayaks. It is located just past times Julian Price Park at Mile Marker 298. Family adventure may pass a picnic at the commons so afterwards kayaking for a relaxing boat ride.

6. Photography

Photographers, artists, writers, together with musicians have got considered the Parkway equally their inspiration for generations. The long views at sunrise or sunset tin can live breathtaking along alongside the upwardly unopen views that come upwardly alongside to a greater extent than careful observation. This gallery volition give y'all just a hint of what is waiting for those alongside photographic television receiver camera inwards hand!

7.     Music 

Western North Carolina together with southwest Virginia are known internationally equally a part rich inwards traditional old-time string band music, ballad singing together with bluegrass, together with abounds inwards opportunities to sense this authentic artistry in person. Traditional music tin can live heard throughout the part inwards a attain of settings, from hometown oprys together with informal jam sessions to concert stages. Festivals together with old-time music conventions, some dating dorsum to almost a century, are reliable opportunities for enjoying traditional music together with trip the low-cal fantastic toe inwards family-friendly settings. Music seems to live a natural component of these mountains – practically inseparable from those who telephone phone this special identify home. For equally long equally Europeans have got populated the Southern Highlands, they have got enjoyed the music that is so much a component of their heritage.

Where to listen this music along the Parkway:

The Blue Ridge Music Center along the Parkway (MP 213) celebrates the music together with musicians of the Blue Ridge. The Music Center includes an outdoor amphitheater, an indoor interpretive center/theater, together with The Roots of American Music, a FREE interactive, together with entertaining, exhibition highlighting the historical significance of the region's music.

The sounds of the fiddle, banjo, together with guitar are probable to welcome y'all when y'all see the Blue Ridge Music Center. Experience regional traditional music each 24-hour interval of the calendar week alongside FREE local Mid-Day Mountain Musicians playing on the breezeway of the visitors middle from Noon - 4 PM.

VII.) Wilmington is a port city in — together with is the county seat of — New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina.

1.) Battleship North Carolina

Address: 1 Battleship Rd NE, Wilmington, NC 28401

Phone Number: (910) 251-5797

USS North Carolina (BB-55) was the lead ship of North Carolina-class battleships and the fourth warship in the U.S. Navy to live named inwards accolade of the State of North Carolina. She was the outset newly constructed American battleship to acquire inwards service during World War II, together with took component inwards every major naval offensive inwards the Pacific Theater of Operations; her 15 battle stars made her the most highly decorated American battleship of World War II. She is right away a museum ship and memorial kept at the seaport of Wilmington, N.C.

Hours

The Battleship NORTH CAROLINA is opened upwardly every 24-hour interval of the year, including all holidays, equally She serves equally a memorial.

Summer Hours: Friday before Memorial Day (May 22, 2015) through Labor Day (September 7, 2015): 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, EXCEPT Independence Day (4th of July) when the ship closes at 5:00pm for enforcement of firework security zone.

Winter Hours: Tuesday next Labor Day (September 2, 2014) through Th before Memorial Day (May 21, 2015): 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, EXCEPT Christmas Day when the Ship opens at noon.

Ticket sales terminate i threescore minutes before closing.

The tour is self-guided together with is well-marked so that y'all tin can tour at your ain pace. We recommend allowing at to the lowest degree 2 hours for the tour, but for the truthful enthusiast, y'all tin can pass much to a greater extent than than that.

Admission

Adults: 12 together with over: $14.00*

Seniors: 65 together with over: $10.00*

Military: Active or retired alongside armed services ID: $10.00*

(Does non include dependents)

Children: 6 through 11: $6.00*

Children: 5 together with under: Free

Friends of the Battleship Members: Free

*Plus Tax

Ticket sales terminate i threescore minutes before closing.

The Battleship gladly accepts Cash, VISA, MasterCard or Discover. We do non have got personal checks.

Group Admission

The Battleship offers a 15% discount on admission for groups of 10 or more that pay past times a unmarried source.  Per soul discounted grouping rates are equally follows.

Adults: 12 together with over: $10.00*

Children: 6 through 11: $5.00*

Children: 5 together with under: Free

*Plus Tax

Reservations are encouraged to ensure the rate. To brand a reservation or to have to a greater extent than information, delight contact Shelly Robinson at leads@battleshipnc.com or telephone phone 910-251-5797.

School Groups

The Battleship North Carolina welcomes ALL schools from ALL states.
School Group rates (public, private, charter, together with habitation schools):
• Preschool: FREE
• Students K – sixth grades: $3.00* each
• Students seventh – twelfth grades: $6.00* each

ALL schoolhouse groups acquire 1 teacher/chaperone admitted for costless per 10 students. Any additional adult volition live charged the adult grouping charge per unit of measurement of $10.00*. 

All schoolhouse groups, including habitation schools, are required to brand reservations at to the lowest degree 24-hours inwards advance of arriving at the Battleship inwards monastic enjoin to have the schoolhouse rate. Walk-up schoolhouse groups of minimal size (no to a greater extent than than 5 students) volition live accepted together with processed at the Ticket Window but may live delayed during busy times. 

All schoolhouse groups, including habitation schools, must introduce a valid ID or missive of the alphabet from their respective schoolhouse districts that include the bring upwardly of their school. 

All habitation schools, regardless of habitation state, must come across the criteria of NC General Statute 115c-563 to have the schoolhouse charge per unit of measurement (e.g. introduce a valid ID, include children from non to a greater extent than than 2 households, instruction provided past times parents or legal guardians, etc.).

*Plus Tax

2.) North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher

Address: 900 Loggerhead Road Kure Beach, NC 28449

Phone Number: 910-458-7468

Business Hours

Daily: 09:00 AM – 5:00 PM Closed Thanksgiving Day together with Christmas Day

See what y'all tin can do:

• Touch a live shark
• Climb along Adventure Reef
• Meet an albino alligator
• Talk to a SCUBA diver
• Come face-to-face alongside a sea turtle

Admission

Adults: ages 13-61, $10.95*
Seniors: ages 62+, $9.95*
Military: $9.95*
Children: ages 3-12, $8.95*
Ages 2 and younger together with North Carolina Aquarium Society Members: FREE
*tax non included

3.) Wilmington together with Beaches such equally Kure, Wrightsville Beach, together with Carolina Beaches

Kure Beach is the habitation to the oldest line-fishing pier on the Atlantic coast, an ocean-front park, a nearby province aquarium together with beautiful natural surroundings. Sit on an oceanfront swing together with taste scenic views at Ocean Front Park. Kure Beach provides the perfect setting together with relaxed stride for y'all together with your household unit of measurement to acquire away together with reconnect inwards this pure together with natural playground.

Carolina Beach offers an master copy sort of beach sense from the past times alongside old-time beach charm combined alongside a fun, family-friendly spin. Visitors tin can sense a vintage, nationally-recognized seaside boardwalk, live music, miles of beautiful beach, world-class fishing, one-of-a sort festivals together with events. 

Wrightsville Beach is North Carolina’s most accessible beach alongside an active civilization including an array of H2O sports together with a vibrant social scene, there’s never a shortage of something happening year-round.  Cruise the H2O past times kayak or paddle board, tame the area’s world-class surf, reel inwards a prize-worthy fish, or just sit down dorsum together with taste the spectacular views of the sunrise over the sea or sunset during an eve harbor cruise.  Kid-friendly adventures are around every corner including treasure hunts, surfing lessons, eco tours together with hotel resorts alongside programs for kids of all ages. 

VIII.) Charlotte is the largest metropolis inwards the U.S. state of North Carolina, the seat of Mecklenburg County, the 2d largest metropolis inwards the Southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Florida which includes ALL of Duvall County, together with the tertiary fastest-growing major metropolis inwards the United States.

1.) Carolinas Aviation Museum

Address: 4672 First Flight Drive Charlotte, NC 28208

Phone Number: (704) 359-8442

The Carolinas Aviation Museum is an aviation museum on the grounds of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. The mission of the Museum is to educate the world virtually the importance of aviation to our gild together with inspire the next generation to excel academically inwards the areas of math, science, together with history through the preservation of our aviation heritage.

The Museum was founded inwards 1992 past times Floyd together with Lois Wilson, together with has a collection of over 50 static aircraft and a wealth of smaller historic items related to aviation in the North and South Carolina. Most of the collection consists of Cold War military aircraft, including several historic jet aircraft from the 1950s together with 1960s. Several aircraft came from the closed Florence Air & Missile Museum, Florence, South Carolina. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pregnant number of aircraft have got also come upwardly from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Marine Corps Air Station New River. The Museum also operates a number of flight aircraft, together with alongside access to iv runways, i over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) inwards length, historic aircraft including the B-17, B-24, B-29 and Berlin Airlift C-54 have flown inwards to see the museum from fourth dimension to time.

Business Hours
Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Admissions (Includes Tax)

General: $12.87
Seniors 60+: $10.73
Students historic menstruum six to 18: $8.58
College alongside ID: $8.58
Active Duty Military: $8.58
Retired Military: $9.65
Children 5 together with under:

(with household unit of measurement see only)

No i nether xviii admitted without an adult.

Please note:   Although nosotros have got several large fans to aid circulate the air, Carolinas Aviation Museum is non air conditioned.

Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Easter

Carolinas Aviation Museum accepts the next credit cards: American Express, Visa, Master Card, Discover

2.) Charlotte Nature Museum

Address: 1658 Sterling Rd, Charlotte, NC 28209

Phone Number: (704) 372-6261

Freedom Park is a 98-acre commons in Charlotte, North Carolina. Located at 1900 East Boulevard, betwixt Charlotte's historic Dilworth and Myers Park neighborhoods, the commons is centered on a 7-acre lake, together with is virtually 3 miles (4.8 km) from the pump of Charlotte's downtown area.

The commons has paved trails, tennis/volleyball courts, sport/athletic fields together with playground equipment. The commons contains a steam engine that is fenced together with has security bars added over the tender, but i tin can walk into the cab. In before years the develop was opened upwardly together with kids could climb on top of it together with nether it. During that fourth dimension menstruum at that spot were 2 burn downwards engines alongside an old-fashioned handgrip crank inwards forepart for the engine. Both burn downwards trucks had the insides together with bring upwardly hose expanse opened upwardly for kids to explore, play together with learn. There was also a tank that the access hatch was welded it unopen but could live climbed together with played on.

Free films together with musical performances inwards the commons pavilion are featured throughout the summer. Every September Freedom Park is the site of the five-day-long Festival inwards the Park, which annually attracts over 100,000 visitors, together with has been recognized equally a Top 20 Event past times the Southeast Tourism Society. Adjacent to Freedom Park is the Charlotte Nature Museum, a fun together with learning middle for immature children operated by Discovery Place, which exhibits animals together with plants of the Piedmont region.

Membership is the most affordable way for y'all together with your household unit of measurement to sense the Museums over together with over again. 

MEMBERSHIP RATES	1 MUSEUM	2 MUSEUM	3 MUSEUMS	ALL MUSEUMS
FAMILY	$130	$160	$190	$220
INDIVIDUAL	$55	$70	N/A	N/A
EDUCATOR	$110	$140	$170	$200
GUEST/NANNY PASS ADD ON	$25 each	$25 each	$50 each	$50 each

3.) Freedom Park

Address: 1900 East Boulevard Central Park Region, Charlotte, NC 28209

Phone Number: 704 432-4280

Freedom Park is a 98-acre commons together with is centered on a 7-acre lake, together with is virtually 3 miles (4.8 km) from the pump of Charlotte's downtown area. The commons has paved trails, tennis/volleyball courts, sport/athletic fields together with playground equipment. The commons contains a steam engine that is fenced together with has security bars added over the tender, but i tin can walk into the cab. 

Free films together with musical performances inwards the commons pavilion are featured throughout the summer. Every September Freedom Park is the site of the five-day-long Festival inwards the Park, which annually attracts over 100,000 visitors, together with has been recognized equally a Top 20 Event past times the Southeast Tourism Society. Adjacent to Freedom Park is the Charlotte Nature Museum, a fun together with learning middle for immature children operated by Discovery Place, which exhibits animals together with plants of the Piedmont region.

Admission: Free

Business Hours
Daily: 08:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Facility Amenities: Concession Stands, Motor coach Parking, Outdoor Seating, Parking on site, Patio/Rooftop, Picnic Area, Rentals Available, Street Parking 

4.) Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

Address: 420 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202

Phone Number: (704) 353-9200

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is a 36,500 foursquare feet (3,390 m2) museum infinite dedicated to the exhibition of mid-20th-century modern art. The modern art museum is component of the new Levine Center for the Arts in Uptown. The museum edifice was designed past times architect Mario Botta. 

The museum is named after the household unit of measurement of Andreas Bechtler, a Charlotte, North Carolina resident together with native of Switzerland who assembled together with inherited a collection of to a greater extent than than 1,400 artworks created past times major figures of 20th-century modernism. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art opened to the world on Jan 2, 2010, alongside old Mayor of Charlotte Anthony Foxx and Andreas Bechtler inwards attendance.

Business Hours
Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday-Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM 

Closed for major holidays (New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas day)

Admission

Adult | $8.00
Senior (65+) | $6.00
College Students (with schoolhouse ID) | $6.00
Educators | $6.00
Youth (11 to 18) | $4.00
Children (up to 10) | Free
Members | Free
Active-duty together with retired armed services personnel, National Guard, Reserve together with their families | Free

Carowinds is a 398-acre (161 ha) amusement park, located next to Interstate 77 on the edge between North and South Carolina, in Charlotte and Fort Mill, respectively. The commons opened on March 31, 1973, at a cost of $70 million. This was the lawsuit of a four-year planning menstruum spearheaded past times Charlotte human being of affairs Earl Patterson Hall, who was inspired to build the commons past times a 1956 trip to Disneyland and a dream of bringing the 2 states closer together. It is owned together with operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company.
Boomerang Bay is a 20 acre (81,000 m2) water park located within Carowinds's 398 acres together with is included inwards regular commons admission. 

Park Features:

Wave pools, lazy river, household unit of measurement raft ride, body slides, tube slides, interactive H2O play middle alongside tipping bucket, activity pool, play areas for immature children.

In add-on to the moisture fun, Carowinds offers a total complement of coasters together with other rides together with attractions. 

Carowinds is i of the largest topic parks inwards the Southeast, together with a pop tourist goal inwards Charlotte. The commons offers a diversity of ways to relieve on admission - from senior, junior, together with armed services discounts to AAA tickets together with "twilight" tickets, together with fifty-fifty a discount for only purchasing online. Every year, at that spot are commonly a few local spots to pick upwardly admission coupons. For the 2014 season, Carowinds has a listed admission cost of $56.99 at the gate.

Single 24-hour interval parking: $15.00 (no accuse if y'all have got a gilt or platinum flavor pass)

Online discount
You tin can relieve $10 off the gate cost of $56.99, together with purchase a ticket for $46.99 through the Carowinds website.

Twilight admission
You tin can purchase an eve ticket (valid after 4 p.m.) for $26.99

"Four or More" tickets
Carowinds volition oftentimes offering a ticket cost of $29.99 if you're purchase iv or to a greater extent than tickets at i time online.

Senior Discount
For guests historic menstruum 62 or older, Carowinds does offering a discount ticket for $37.99.

Junior Discount
The junior ticket doesn't go past times age, but goes past times height. If a invitee is less than 48" tall inwards shoes, they tin can acquire a ticket for $37.99

Children 2 together with under
Guests historic menstruum 2 together with nether are admitted free

AAA Discount
The AAA Carolinas site says y'all tin can relieve upwardly to $15 per ticket purchasing through their site if you're a member.

Coca-Cola Discount
During the park's operating season, Coca-Cola commonly has a advertisement where y'all tin can acquire $15 off daily admission alongside a Coca-Cola production can. The cans volition live specially marked, so cheque Charlotte expanse convenience stores.

Military discount
Retired together with active duty armed services tin can demo their armed services ID at the gate for a discount. There are also several "military days" throughout the year, when active duty together with retired armed services are admitted free. 

Season Pass

Prices vary depending on when precisely you're purchasing your flavor pass, but the cost for a gilt hand is commonly around $80. With that, y'all acquire costless season-long parking, unlimited admission inwards 2014, together with costless admission to the 2014 Halloween Haunt, together with enough of other benefits. If y'all pair the regular admission charge per unit of measurement of $56.99 alongside the daily parking charge per unit of measurement of $15, a household unit of measurement of iv would pay $242.96 (plus tax) for a 24-hour interval at the commons (not counting whatever discounts, which are commonly pretty available), or $312 for a flavor hand for the family. Obviously, if y'all tin can consider yourself visiting the commons for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than i day, the flavor hand is a proficient purchase.

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