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Experience the Triangle
Whether you're here for a day or a lifetime, there are plenty of places to see and activities to enjoy.
What's Here...
- Unique Tours
- Views Around the Triangle
- Museums
- Historic Sites
- State Parks
- Books to Help Plan Your Trip
- Professional Sports
- Colleges & Univeristies
- Views of Durham, NC
- Unique to the Triangle
- Off The Broiler blog
- Wineries & Breweries
- Views of Raleigh, NC
- Best Places For Business And Careers
- Performing Arts
- Cary, NC - Best Places to Live 2008
- Official Tourism Websites
- Local Weather
- Book Your Trip...
- Leave a Note
- Souvenirs
- Day Trips
- New Discover Our Town
- New Shutterfly
Unique Tours
- Downtown Raleigh Walking Tour
- Listing and descriptions of 70 historic sites in downtown Raleigh. Printable map to take for your journey.
- Durham: Self-Guided Tours
- List of self-guided tours and printable maps.
- Historic Hillsborough Guided Walking Tour
- Trained Guides take visitors on a 1 1/2-2 hour tour through Hillsborough's historic district. Along the way, visitors stop inside the Norwood Law Office, the Orange County Historical Museum, the Burwell School Historic Site, and the Hughes Academy. While weaving through the streets of Hillsborough, groups pass the Old Orange County Courthouse, historic churches, cemeteries, colonial and antebellum homes, and much more.
- Raleigh Rickshaw Co.
- Raleigh Rickshaw's mission is to provide fun and friendly transportation in the heart of our city. Serving downtown Raleigh and adjacent neighborhoods, rickshaw rides are a safe and environmentally friendly way for locals and visitors alike to enjoy Raleigh's ever-increasing downtown activities.
- Raleigh Trolley
- The narrative Historic Raleigh Trolley Tour operates every Saturday March - December from 11a.m. - 3 p.m. The narrated tours lasts one hour with stops throughout down town. The Trolley departs from Mordecai Historic Park on the hour, but can be boarded at any stop.
- Triangle Segway
- Triangle Segway, located in Raleigh's historic City Market, offers sales, service, corporate team-building events, mobile marketing, and a wide range of fun guided tours that will glide you to the area's points of interest in style.
Views Around the Triangle
a few of my personal photos
NC Executive Mansion
NC Executive Mansion
Fayetteville Street
Mordecai Mansion
NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Durham Bulls
Amercian Tobacco Historic District
Carolina Hurricanes
NC State University football
NC Museum of Life & Science
Museums
- Ackland Art Museum
- Located on the campus of the University of North Carolina, the Ackland Art Museum showcases a permanent collection of 15,000 objects from across the world.
- Chapel Hill Museum
- Chapel Hill Museum exhibits the "character and characters of Chapel Hill, NC."
- Kidzu Children's Museum
- A hands-on, interactive museum for kids ages 0-8 years old.
- Marbles Kids Museum
- A hands-on, interactive museum located in downtown Raleigh and home to the IMAX theater.
- Morehead Planetarium & Science Center
- Located on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium is one of the largest planetariums in the U.S.
- NC Museum of Art
- The NC Museum of Art presents a vast array of permanent pieces, student artwork, and traveling exhibits. It also features a 164 acre park.
- NC Museum of History
- Learn about the history of the state of North Carolina through permanent and changing exhibits.
- NC Museum of Life & Science
- A wonderful museum for both children and adults featuring hands-on exhibits and a six-acre woodland with black bears, red wolves & lemurs.
- NC Museum of Natural Sciences
- Learn about North Carolina from the mountains to the oceans. Be sure to visit the Butterfly room on the top floor!
- Raleigh City Museum
- The Raleigh City Museum is located in downtown Raleigh and specializes in the history of the city.
Historic Sites
North Carolina Historic Sites in the Triangle
- Bennett Place
- This simple farmhouse was located between Confederate General Johnston's headquarters in Greensboro and Union General Sherman's headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1865 the two officers met at the Bennett Place, where they signed surrender papers for southern armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Today James Bennett's reconstructed farmhouse, kitchen, and smokehouse recall the lifestyle of an ordinary Southern farmer during the Civil War.
- Duke Homestead
- See the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Duke's sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world. The tour includes the Duke family's restored home, an early factory, a curing barn, and a packhouse. The Tobacco Museum exhibits traces tobacco history from Native American times to the present.
- Historic Stagville
- Historic Stagville now serves as an instructional tool for the visiting public and teaches them about Southern plantation life and North Carolina material culture.
- NC State Capitol
- The North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840, is one of the finest and best-preserved examples of a major civic building in the Greek Revival style of architecture. It is a National Historic Landmark.
State Parks
- Eno River State Park
- Address: 6101 Cole Mill Road, Durham, NC 27705-9275
Office Phone: 919-383-1686 - Falls Lake State Recreation Area
- Address: 13304 Creedmoor Rd., Wake Forest, NC 27587
Office Phone: (919) 676-1027 - Jordan Lake State Recreation Area
- Address: 280 State Park Road, Apex, NC 27523
Office Phone: (919) 362-0586 - William B Umstead State Park
- Address: 8801 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27617
Office Phone: (919) 571-4170
Books to Help Plan Your Trip
Walking Raleigh/Durham
Amazon Price: $9.56 (as of 07/19/2008)
Chapel Hill, NC (Images of America)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/19/2008)
Day Trips from Raleigh-Durham, 2nd (Day Trips Series)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/19/2008)
Professional Sports
- Carolina Hurricanes
- NHL Hockey
- Carolina Mudcats
- Florida Marlins Double-A Affliliate
- Carolina Railhawks
- United Soccer League First Division
- Durham Bulls
- Tampa Bay Devil Rays Triple-A Affliliate
Colleges & Univeristies
Higher Education Options in the Triangle
- Duke Univeristy
- Created in 1924, Duke University is a private university comprised of 9 schools & colleges.
- Meredith College
- Meredith College is a private women's college offering 50 programs of study.
- North Carolina Central University
- Located in Durham, NC Central University is a historically black university. Today it offers a diverse student population with undergraduate & graduate degrees.
- North Carolina State University
- Established in 1887 as a land-grant institution, NC State University consists of 10 schools & colleges offering undergraduate and graduate degrees.
- Peace College
- Peace College is a private women's college located on the northern edge of downtown Raleigh with a historic affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA).
- St. Augustine College
- St. Augustine's College is a private college founded in 1867 by the Episcopal clergy for the education of freed slaves. Today it offers a liberal arts education to approximately 1,600 students.
- Shaw University
- Shaw University is the first historically black college founded in the South. It is a private school with affiliation to the Baptist Church.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in more than 100 fields.
Views of Durham, NC
photo credit to SuzeM on Flickr.com
Durham
Durham
Durham downtown
Durham downtown
Durham
Durham downtown
Durham
Unique to the Triangle
Places you won't want to miss...
- American Tobacco Historic District
- Once the world's largest tobacco company, American Tobacco Historic District is now home to commercial & retail space. During the summer, stop by for Music on the Lawn or catch a baseball game next door at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
- The Cotton Company
- The Cotton Company, Wake Forest, NC combines Yesterday's Architecture and Today's Artisans into a unique marketplace and event center for home furnishings and accessories, fine arts, jewelry, women's fashions, children's toys, unique gifts for anyone and everyone!
- Mama Dip's Country Cooking Restaurant
- For some of the best southern cooking around, stop in for a visit at Mama Dip's in Chapel Hill.
- Neomonde Baking Company
- Lebanese & Mediterranean cuisine and groceries.
- Raleigh Trolley
- Take a tour of downtown Raleigh aboard the Raleigh Trolley.
- Southern Rail Restaurant
- Eat aboard a train without leaving the station - Southern Rail Restaurant in Carrboro serves upscale dining in the relaxed atmosphere of 2 remodeled train cars.
- A Southern Season
- Visit A Southern Season's 60,000sf store at University Mall in Chapel Hill for food, cookware, and gifts.
Off The Broiler blog
Follow food enthusiast, Jason Perlow, as he experiences Triangle dining
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- Carafe Wine Makers
- Carafe is the ultimate wine-making experience where wine-lovers enjoy their own great taste at substantial savings! Create your own vintage for unique and elegant keepsakes, or serve your own special wines at your reception.
- Carolina Brewing Company
- Come inside the Carolina Brewing Company brewery. Learn about our handcrafted beers and how you can sample our products.
- Chatham Hill Winery
- Chatham Hill Winery was established in 1999 as the first winery in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. The mission of our winery is to produce distinctive, handcrafted wines of high quality and purity from grapes grown in North Carolina. We carefully select high quality grapes from vineyards with old vines and low yields to ensure quality and consistency.
Views of Raleigh, NC
Downtown Raleigh
RDU
Irregardless Cafe
Pullen Park
Krispy Kreme
Five Points
Downtown Raleigh
Best Places For Business And Careers
For the second year in a row, Raleigh topped the 2008 Forbes list of Best Places for Business and Careers.Business costs are 14% below the national average, and the area boasts one of the most educated labor supplies in the country, with 38% of the adult population possessing a college degree and 12% holding a graduate degree. Raleigh's secret is out, though, as people have been flocking to the area.
Net migration has averaged 25,000 annually in recent years, or 2.4% of the population, seventh highest in the country. The influx of talented young people is good news for big employers in the area like Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ) and SAS Institute.
Performing Arts
- Carolina Ballet
- Carolina Ballet is a vibrant, young, and highly respected company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, directed by Robert Weiss.
- ComedyWorx: Live Improv Comedy in Raleigh, NC
- ComedyWorx is professional team-on-team improvisational comedy. Two teams of performers compete for points based on audience laughs. The talent is a riot, and the fun is interactive!
- Progress Energy Performing Arts Center
- The Progress Energy Performing Arts Center, located in downtown Raleigh, is home to Memorial Auditorium, Fletcher Opera Theater, Meymandi Concert Hall and Kennedy Theater.
- Raleigh Little Theatre
- Begun in 1936, Raleigh Little Theatre is now one of the oldest continuously operating community theatres in the country. We offer entertainment, education and community programs year-round. RLT showcases 11 productions each year, with more than 150 performances. No other theatre in North Carolina produces as many shows.
- Theatre in the Park
- Theatre In The Park presents a wide range of comedy, contemporary drama, musicals, and Shakespeare in our totally flexible performance space.
Cary, NC - Best Places to Live 2008
MONEY magazine ranks Cary #16
WINNERTop 100 rank: 16
Population: 112,400
Compare Cary to Top 10 Best Places
Adjacent to North Carolina's renowned Research Triangle Park, Cary is blessed with plenty of resources.
With Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina all within a 20-minute drive, it's no wonder that two-thirds of Cary's population has a college degree. The Triangle's 170 businesses include SAS Software, Epic Games and Cotton Incorporated--a boon for the local economy that keeps median household incomes much higher than average.
And those who move here can rest easy: it's one of the safest cities around.
Read the full report here:
Best Places to Live 2008 - Cary, NC - from MONEY magazine
Photo credit: Join the Parade by tsmyther at Flickr.com.
Official Tourism Websites
- Durham, NC
- Durham's official visitor's site
- Chapel Hill Orange County Visitor's Bureau
- Orange County's official visitor's site
- VisitRaleigh.com
- Raleigh's official visitor's site
- Explore North Carolina
- North Carolina's official visitor's site
Local Weather
Current weather conditions in Raleigh, NC (27601)
Local Pollen Reports
74°F (Feels like 74°F)
Last update: 7/19/08 9:05 PM EDT
Humidity: 91%Visibility: 10.0 mi
Dew Point: 72°F
UV Index: 0 (Lawn and Garden Weather)
Barometer: 30.02in steady
Moon: Rush Hour Traffic
Wind: calm From: Airport Conditions
Tonight
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Low: 70°F
Sunrise: 6:13 AM
Sunset: 8:28 PM
Sunday
Jul 20
N/A
High: 96°F
Low: 73°F
Sunrise: 6:13 AM
Sunset: 8:28 PM
Monday
Jul 21
Partly Cloudy
High: 99°F
Low: 76°F
Sunrise: 6:14 AM
Sunset: 8:27 PM
Tuesday
Jul 22
Isolated T-Storms
High: 97°F
Low: 74°F
Sunrise: 6:15 AM
Sunset: 8:26 PM
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Leave a Note
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BigJim
Thanks for joining the Squidoo City Guide. Posted July 16, 2008 |
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Barkely
Very nice, a big thumbs up to you:) I love the North Carolina area, it's so beautiful. Posted March 28, 2008 |
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johndilbeck
Hi Sarah, Posted March 04, 2008 |
Souvenirs
Day Trips
Adventures that are just a short drive from the Triangle
- Airborne & Special Operations Museum
- The ASOM in Fayetteville, NC tells the history of the Army's elite forces from WWII to today through innovative exhibits. Admission is free.
- Carowinds
- Carowinds is the biggest, most unique theme park experience in the Carolinas.
- North Carolina Aquariums
- The Aquariums were established in 1976 to promote an awareness, understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the diverse natural and cultural resources associated with North Carolina's ocean, estuaries, rivers, streams, and other aquatic environments.
There are three facilities located along the North Carolina coast - Pine Knoll Shores, Roanoke Island and Fort Fisher. - North Carolina Historic Sites
- North Carolina Historic Sites, a group of 27 unique state historic sites, invites you to see our state as it was and to open doors into the past, which can enable us to better understand the world we live in today. Whether you are fortunate enough to live in North Carolina or are just visiting, you will discover we have sites that will pique the imagination, stir the mind, and lift the spirit.
- North Carolina Zoo
- Located about 75 miles west of Raleigh in Asheboro, N.C. Zoo is nationally recognized as one of the nation's finest zoos. It was the first American zoo designed from its inception around the "natural habitat" philosophy--presenting animals and plants in exhibits that closely resemble the habitats in which they would be found in the wild.
- Seagrove Pottery
- Come and discover more than 90 potteries in a 20-mile area. Meet eighth and ninth generation potters in a place rich with a 200-year old tradition.
