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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.