Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, NC
Attractions/Things to DO

Celebration Station
4315 Big Tree Way
Greensboro, North Carolina 27409

Big Karts, Golf & Batting Cages open at noon and boats at 4:00.
Admission Charged for attractions and games. The whole family will be entertained at this amusement center that includes a miniature golf course, go-carts, water bumper boats, arcade games, batting cages.

Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe Water park
3910 S Holden Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27406
Admission Charged

The largest water park in the Carolinas featuring more than 34 rides and attractions. The most popular rides are the enclosed Twin Twisters water slide and the Dare Devil Drop speed slide. attractions on site including drop slides, enclosed slides, tube rides, two children's areas, and a drifting lazy river.

Natural Science Center of Greensboro
4301 Lawndale Drive
Greensboro, North Carolina
Admission charged.

Treat yourself to a hands-on museum, zoo and planetarium offering fun for the whole family. Roam through the Dinosaur Gallery, learn about gems and minerals, see the lemurs and enjoy touch labs. Visit snakes and amphibians in the Jaycee Herpetarium, pet animals in the zoo's petting area, explore Kids Alley and interact with exciting traveling exhibits. The Thesaurus Shoppe is where you will find unusual gifts and educational toys for imaginative minds.

O Henry Statues Downtown Greensboro
Located at the corner of N. Elm and Bellemeade Streets in Downtown Greensboro
Admission free to view

This outdoor, three piece sculpture group honors Greensboro's best known writer, William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, and features a statue of the author, a large sculpture of an open book of his short stories, and a statue of his beloved little dog, Lovey.

Edward R. Murrow Statue
Southwest corner of Friendly Ave., and Murrow Blvd.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Admission free to view

Known for his on-the-scene reports from World War II and the Korean War, Guilford County native Edward R. Murrow is remembered with a commemorative bust. A permanent exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Museum chronicles the life and times of Murrow.

Blandwood Mansion (circa 1846)
447 West Washington Street
Greensboro, North Carolina 27401
Admission Charged

The former home of Governor John Motley Morehead, this beautiful mansion is surrounded by four acres of gardens. The main structure, an Italianate mansion, was built onto an original four-room farm house that was constructed on the site in 1790s and has been beautifully refurnished with historical period furnishings.

Mendenhall Plantation (circa 1811)
603 West Main Street
Jamestown, North Carolina 27282

Admission charged
This early 19th century Quaker plantation includes many unique out-buildings, a museum and one of two known false-bottom wagons used to transport runaway slaves during the time of the Underground Railroad.

Old Mill of Guilford (circa 1767) 1340
NC Highway 68 North
Greensboro, North Carolina 27310
Admission Free

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this 18th century gristmill still produces stone-ground cornmeal, grits, and other interesting mixes. Visitors can tour the historic structure and purchase the products it turns out including the unique meals, grits, gingerbread, oatmeal sweet potato muffins, and Scottish scones.

Walkway of History
February One Place
Greensboro, North Carolina
Admission Free

These sidewalk markers chronicle six chapters in local African-American history ranging from the first fugitive slave on the Underground Railroad through the first African-American State Supreme Court Justice.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
6136 Burlington Road, Highway 70
Greensboro, North Carolina 27342
Admission Free.

The museum is a historic site at the former Palmer Memorial Institute, a preparatory school established in 1902 by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a noted African American educator and national civic leader; it closed in 1971. For the 50 years of her presidency, Dr. Brown built PMI into one of the most renowned schools for African American youth in the nation.

Greensboro Historical Museum
130 Summit Avenue
Greensboro, North Carolina 27401
Admission Free

Greensboro was the hometown of O. Henry, the short-story writer known in these parts as William Sidney Porter. Here, you'll find an exhibit illustrating his life and work, plus a fine collection from Dolly Madison's life. Born in Greensboro, Madison was the only native-born North Carolinian to be First Lady. Other exhibits include early modes of transportation, furnishings, pottery, and textiles. An exhibit of note remembers the civil-rights lunch-counter sit-ins at F.W. Woolworth, when, in 1960, four African Americans launched the nation's first major protest against segregation. A world class collection of Civil War firearms are also in the museum, as well as an old-fashioned general store.

University Galleries
1601 East Market Street
Greensboro, North Carolina 27411
Located in the Dudley Building, North Carolina A&T University
Admission Free

Housing the nation's largest collection of African art and artifacts, this museum offers tours and lectures that are meant to educate people in the accomplishments, history, and culture of African societies and persons of African descent. Over 3,500 items from more than 30 African nations are housed here.

Weatherspoon Art Museum
Spring Garden and Tate Streets
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402
Located at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Admission Free

An ever-growing permanent collection that focuses on American art from the turn-of-the-century to the present is exhibited at this museum that also features changing and traveling exhibitions and offers various educational programs.

Parks:

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
2332 New Garden Road
Greensboro, NC
Free Admission.

The first national park established at a Revolutionary War site, this 220-acre park marks one of the closing battles of the Revolution--the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781. A self-guided auto tour is available and visitors can enjoy colorful and informational exhibits and paved walking trails.

Tannenbaum Historic Park
2200 New Garden Road
Greensboro, NC 27410
Admission Free

This park utilizes hands-on exhibits and living history presentations to depict a vivid picture of everyday life in North Carolina's backcountry during the late 18th century.

Bog Garden
Hobbs Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27405,
Admission Free

The natural beauty of this swampy area has been developed into a striking exhibit that features a half-mile elevated wooden walkway providing easy access through the garden. Visitors can see more than 8,000 individually-labeled trees, shrubs, ferns, bamboo and wild-flowers. Greensboro lives up to the green in its name with 110 parks, sprawling over 3,000 acres.

Jaycee Park
Forest Lawn Drive off Pisgah Church Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27455
Admission Free.

Jaycee Park is the site of the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame, offering facilities for baseball, softball, soccer, football, and tennis, plus a playground beside a lake. The North Carolina Closed Tennis Championship is played here annually on the best of the city's 156 courts.

Shopping:

Bargain hunters will want to visit two nearby towns, both of which are overflowing with factory outlet shops. High Point, 17 miles south of Greensboro (so named because it was the highest point along the 1853 North Carolina and Midland Railroad from Salem to Fayetteville), is notable for its furniture and hosiery shops.