Greensboro, North Carolina - Places to Visit
Celebration Station
4315 Big Tree Way, Greensboro, North Carolina 27409
336-316-0606
Hours: Monday-Thursday: 12:00 to 9:00 Big Karts, Golf & Batting Cages open at noon and boats at 4:00, Friday: Noon -Midnight. Big Karts, Golf & Batting Cages open at noon and all else at 4:00, Saturday: 10am-Midnight, Sunday: 12-9pm
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, and two theme restaurants.
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Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe Waterpark
3910 S Holden Road, Greensboro, North Carolina 27406
336-852-9721
Hours: Late May, open daily 10AM-7PM; June-Aug. Sun. & Fri. 10AM-8PM, Sat. 9AM-8PM; early Sept. 10AM-7PM. Closed on certain days in August
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
336-288-3769
Hours: 9 am-5pm, Mon-Sat; 12:30-5, Sun.
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
336-373-2043
Call for exact location
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
336-373-2043
Call for additional information
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
336-272-5003
Tour Hours: February – December, Tuesday - Saturday 11-2, Sunday 2-5
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, Greensboro, North Carolina 27282
336-454-3819
Open April 1 through the third week in December, 10 am-2 pm, Tues.-Fri; 1-4 pm, Sat; 2-4 pm, Sun.
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
336-643-4783
Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm
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 South Elm Street
February One Place, Greensboro, North Carolina
336-274-2282
Open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day
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
336-449-4846
Hours: Monday - Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed Sunday; Winter Hours: November - March: Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed Saturday & Sunday
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
336-373-2043
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Sunday, 2pm – 5pm. Closed Mondays and City of Greensboro holidays
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.
International Civil rights Center and Museum
134 South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27405
336-274-9199
Call for days and hours of operation
Admission Free
See the original Woolworth counter where four North Carolina A&T State University students sat down and began the National Civil Rights Sit-In Movement at this Woolworth store that is now a museum dedicated to the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mattye Reed African Heritage Center
1601 East Market Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411
Located in the Dudley Building, North Carolina A&T University
336-334-7108
Hours: Mon-Fri l0-5, Sat afternoons
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
336-334-5770
Hours: Tues., Wed. & Fri. 10am-5pm, Thurs. 10am-9pm, Sat. & Sun. 1pm-5pm
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
336- 288-1776
Open daily, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed New Years Day (January 1), Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November), Christmas Day (December 25).
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
336-545-5315
Winter Tuesday-Saturday 9:00-4:30, Closed Sunday and Monday
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,
336-373-2199
Call for additional information
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
336-545-5310
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. Burlington, 21 miles east of Greensboro, is a major textile center, with factory outlets for clothing, fabrics, sheets, towels, blankets, and the like.