GREENSBORO • COME TO YOUR SENSES 2011 VISITORS GUIDE Order a free print version of this guide at www.VisitGreensboroNC.com CONTENTS Be A Part of History: 4 Historical Attractions African American Attractions 6 Experience the Arts: 7 Festivals, Music, Theatre, Dance & Art Order a Go Shopping 10 free print version Fun for Everyone 12 of this guide at Kids, Everyone, Bowling, Cinemas www.VisitGreensboroNC.com Just Down the Road 14 Get Outdoors 15 Recreation & Outdoor Activities, Pro Sports, Recreation & Sports Facilities, Garden & Parks, COME TO YOUR SENSES. VISIT GREENSBORO. Area Lakes, Campgrounds, Golf Learning Centers Use your senses in Greensboro, North Carolina, and immerse yourself in fun and excitement! Golf Courses 19 There are plenty of sights, smells, sounds, tastes and activities to experience. Agritourism & Wineries 20 Aim High: Colleges & Universities 22 beautiful paintings and art at over 40 galleries! ACC Basketball See See Annual Events 23 action at the Greensboro Coliseum or See a Greensboro Grasshoppers game in Accommodations 25 Downtown Greensboro. Touch history at the interactive Greensboro Historical Dining 30 Museum, the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and more. Smell the fresh, fragrant air and take in the scenery at one of the tranquil gardens. Dining Index 47 Taste a variety of cuisines, from world-class haute cuisine to down-home, tangy, pit- Travel Tips & Visitor Information 48 cooked barbecue. Choose from over 500 restaurants! Hear some of your favorite bands A Brief History of Greensboro 50 and musicians in concert at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. the soothing Hear Maps sounds of the Greensboro Symphony or enjoy blues or jazz at the Eastern Music Festival. Greensboro Area Map 52 Attractions & Accommodations Map 54 Throughout Greensboro’s 200 year history, the city has grown and diversified from a tobacco and textile town to a city that embraces the future. With seven thriving colleges and universities Downtown Map with Attractions & Accommodations 58 and over 45,000 students, major corporate headquarters and top-notch sports facilities, Coupons 60 Greensboro is a great place to live, work and visit! Attractions with a “*” denote they offer a discount coupon in this guide. When you are making plans, be sure and contact the Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Photographers: Dan Routh, Lynn Donovan, Mike Micciche, Bert Vanderveen, Marvin Isreal Bureau first for the best to see and do. We can assist with securing hotel reservations, planning a day of shopping or taking in all the historic and cultural attractions and activities. When you come to Greensboro, we will be sure you’re on the right track to have a great time. Come to your senses and relax and be refreshed in a city where genuine Southern Hospitality is around every corner! The information in this brochure was compiled by the Greensboro Area Visitor Information Seven Days A Week 2200 Pinecroft Rd. Suite 200, Greensboro, NC 27407 Convention & Visitors Bureau in the fall of 2010. Inclusion should not The Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and Located near the intersection of I-40 and High Point Road be construed as a recommendation, but merely as a guide. Visitors are the Greensboro Visitor Center offer free guides, maps and Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:30am-5:30pm • Sat: 9am-4pm • Sun: 1-5pm information on attractions, accommodations, restaurants, www.VisitGreensboroNC.com • [email protected] encouraged to confirm all information. The Greensboro Area CVB will golf, special events and more. We can also help visitors Tel: 800.344.2282 • 336.274.2282 • Fax: 336.230.1183 not be held responsible for any discrepancies contained herein. make reservations at local accommodations and restaurants. Visitor Information Center information available on page 53. fi rearms collection and the new 8,000 sq. ft. O. HENRY STATUES OF HISTORY BE A PART Voices of a City exhibit. Museum Shop. This outdoor, three-piece sculpture honors Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10am-5pm; Sun. 2-5pm. Greensboro’s best known writer, William Sydney FREE. 130 Summit Ave. 336-373-2043. Porter (O. Henry). A bronze likeness of the www.GreensboroHistory.org author, a 7- by 14- foot book of his short stories and a statue of his small dog. Located on the GUILFORD COUNTY corner of N. Elm and Bellemeade Sts. One block VETERANS MEMORIAL from the Greensboro Historical Museum. FREE. Tribute to Guilford County residents, who served America in the 20th century, both in uniform and OLD GREENSBOROUGH & THE on the home front. Text and maps tell the story DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT of why and how we went to war, including the Visit this revitalized turn-of-the-century Cold War and other confl icts. Open daily during commercial and residential district complete daylight hours. FREE. Located in Country Park with antiques, art, coffee shops, specialty history across the lake from the Natural Science Center clothing stores, gifts and accessories, over the of Greensboro, off Lawndale Drive. 54 restaurants and nightclubs and three seesee the history theatres offering a variety of live performances RevolutionaryRevolutionary War War GUILFORD COURTHOUSE NATIONAL reenactmentreenactment at atGuilford Guilford throughout the year. Parking decks located in BE A PART OF HISTORY BE A PART MILITARY PARK downtown areas, with free parking after 6pm CourthouseCourthouse National National Honoring the site of the March 15, 1781 Battle Military Park explodes and weekends. 336-379-0060. Military Parkin explodes March of Guilford Courthouse. Visitors can view www.downtowngreensboro.net informational outdoor exhibits and monuments. in March. Indoor activities include a 30-minute live-action fi lm (shown on the hour); an animated battle map program, and Revolutionary War museum exhibits. mouth-wateringsmell aromas of Hours: Daily, 8:30am-5pm. Closed New Year’s the downtown restaurants as Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. FREE. you shop in unique stores. Reservations required for large groups. 2332 New Garden Rd. 336-288-1776. www.nps.gov/guco TANNENBAUM HISTORIC PARK 230TH ANNIVERSARY CHARLOTTE HAWKINS BROWN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER Explore history at your own pace, on your COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE MUSEUM AT HISTORIC PALMER & MUSEUM/SIT-IN MOVEMENT own time. The Colonial Heritage Center at OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE Located in the former F.W. Woolworth retail store Tannenbaum Park interprets the history of An annual event to mark the 230th anniversary Visit North Carolina’s only state-supported at 134 S. Elm Street on the historic site where backcountry life before, during and after the of the 1781 Revolutionary War Battle of historic site to recognize a woman and one on Feb. 1, 1960 four North Carolina A&T State American Revolution. Take a self-guided tour Guilford Courthouse. Features a lecture of the fi rst to honor an African American. University students sat down at the store’s “whites of Guilford County, North Carolina’s colonial series, a commemorative observance, military The site is the location of the former Palmer only” lunch counter and challenged the “Jim past. Now operated by the National Parks encampments, music and programs. 2011 event Memorial Institute, an African American Crow” traditions of the day. Their actions ignited Service. Guided tours are offered during days dates: Lectures, March 8-11; Weekend Program preparatory school established by Brown in the sit-in movement, which spread like wildfi re of operation. Reservation required for groups. and re-enactments, March 12-13. FREE. Country 1902. Year-round hours: Mon.-Sat., 9am-5pm. throughout the South. The museum offers an FREE. Hours: Fri.-Sat.-Sun. 8:30am-5pm. 2200 Park, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park FREE. Groups of 10 or more should call in educational journey through the challenges African New Garden Rd. 336-545-5315 or 336-288-1776. and Tannenbaum Historic Park. 336-288-1776 advance. 6136 Burlington Rd., Sedalia, 10 miles Americans faced in the struggle for equal rights in www.nps.gov/guco or 336-545-5315. www.nps.gov/guco east of Greensboro off I-85 exit 135. the United States and brings this history to life with 336-449-4846. www.nchistoricsites.org/chb vivid photography, artifacts, video reenactments WALKWAY OF HISTORY BLANDWOOD MANSION* and interactive galleries. Hours: April-Sept.: Tues.- Sidewalk markers chronicle six chapters in local A National Historic Landmark; originally DAVID CALDWELL HISTORIC PARK Thurs., 9am-6pm; Fri.-Sat., 9am-7pm; Sun., 1-6pm; African American history ranging from the fi rst constructed in 1795 Blandwood later served David Caldwell (1725-1824) served as the Closed Mondays. Oct.-March: Tues.-Sat., 10am- fugitive slave on the Underground Railroad to as N.C. Governor John Motley Morehead’s minister of Buffalo and Alamance Presbyterian 6pm; Sun., 1-5pm; Closed Mondays. Admission the fi rst African American North Carolina State home. In 1844, A.J. Davis designed an addition, churches, as a physician and a teacher. The fee. 336-274-9199. www.sitinmovement.org Supreme Court Justice. FREE. Located on S. Elm transforming the farmhouse into an Italianate museum is a place to understand the lives of St. at February One Pl. wonder. Visit today to see the original David and Rachel Caldwell at the site of their MENDENHALL PLANTATION architecture and family furnishings. Hours: Tues.- home, adjacent to Tanger Family Bicentennial This early 19th-century Quaker plantation includes GREENSBORO • Sat., 11am-4pm and Sun., 2-5pm. Closed the Gardens. Hours: Sat. 10am-6pm. FREE. many unique outbuildings and one of two existing fi rst week of January. Admission fee. Advance 3211 W. Cornwallis Dr. 336-373-3681. false-bottom wagons used to transport runaway reservations required for groups of 10 or more. www.GreensboroHistory.org slaves during the time of the Underground Railroad. 447 W. Washington St. 336-272-5003. Jan.-Feb. hours: Fri., 11am-3pm; Sat., 1-4pm; Sun., www.blandwood.org FEBRUARY ONE MONUMENT 2-4pm.