2014-2015 OFFICIAL VISITOR & RELOCATION GUIDE WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA ® WWW.VISITWINSTONSALEM.COM 1 every visit should begin at old salem. It has since 1766. No trip to Winston-Salem is complete without a visit to Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Experience the beautiful simplicity of life in the early South brought to life through storytelling, original buildings, and artifacts. Old Salem Museums & Gardens features over 1oo acres of historically restored buildings and landscapes, two world-class museums – the Historic Town of Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts – award-winning heirloom gardens, and hands-on activities and events for the entire family. Visit oldsalem.org • (336)721-735o Winston-Salem, North Carolina We’re nationally ranked in 12 specialties, but our real specialty is caring for you. NATIONALLY RANKED IN: For the twenty-first year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has named Wake Forest Baptist Cancer Medical Center one of the nation’s best hospitals. We’re the only hospital in the Triad and in Cardiology & Heart Surgery western North Carolina to be ranked nationally. And we’re one of only twenty-one hospitals in Diabetes & Endocrinology the country to be ranked in twelve or more specialties. But our real specialty is caring for patients Ear, Nose & Throat as if they were our own family. That’s how our physicians, nurses, researchers and staff fulfill our Gastroenterology & GI Surgery mission to care and to cure, every day. For more information on our nationally recognized care or Geriatrics to make an appointment with a world-class physician, call 336-716-WAKE or visit WakeHealth.edu. Gynecology Nephrology Neurology & Neurosurgery Orthopedics Pulmonology To make an appointment, call 888-716-WAKE Urology or visit WakeHealth.edu A Mission to Care. A Mission to Cure. UNCSA01_pr_allschool_VisitWSGuide_7.25x9.5_0314.pdf 1 3/6/14 1:14 PM Your passion today. DANCE DESIGN & PRODUCTION Your profession tomorrow. with high school Visual Arts Program C DRAMA M Training talented students, from high school to graduate school, in the performing, visual and moving image arts to be professional artists. FILMMAKING Y Presenting more than 300 public performances and screenings annually. MUSIC CM MY CY CMY K Photography by Peter Mueller, Steve Davis and Leftwich Photography WWW.UNCSA.EDU [email protected] 336-770-3290 [email protected] 336-721-1945 Winston-Salem, NC Welcome to Winston-Salem, Your Southern Wake-up Call! hether your travels bring you to Winston-Salem for business or Contents leisure, we invite you to explore our vibrant city and discover why we are 4 A CITY FOR ALL SEASONS a City of Arts and Innovation. We are proud of Winston-Salem and how it has grown toW be an area known for its diverse economy and dynamic 8 HISTORY & HERITAGE arts scene, while embracing our rich historic roots. Now we are also pleased to be known as the gateway to the HISTORY, CULTURE Yadkin Valley — North Carolina’s largest wine region. 10 We designed this Visitor Guide as a helpful resource & CULINARY to kick-start your stay. We’ve included detailed directories of hotels and attractions, and we’ve compiled a 14 ARTS & THEATRE comprehensive calendar of destination-de ning festivals and annual events to assist you when planning your visit. To learn more about Winston-Salem, we invite you 15 ATTRACTIONS to stop by our Winston-Salem Visitor Center — open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and seasonally on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Browse through 23 DOWNTOWN dozens of informational brochures from spectacular area attractions, pick up regional travel guides and chat with FROM VINE TO WINE our knowledgeable Visitor Center information specialists. 26 If you are interested in learning more about our dining scene, get a copy of the Visit Winston-Salem Wine and Dine Guide. is guide is a handy, comprehensive 32 SPORTS & RECREATION directory of restaurants, nightlife spots and Yadkin Valley wineries, making it a perfect companion to the Visitor Guide. 34 SHOPPING For additional information, please call us toll-free at 866.728.4200, e-mail us at [email protected] or visit our website VisitWinstonSalem.com, as it is also 38 ANNUAL EVENTS an excellent resource for you while planning, and even booking, your stay in Winston-Salem. ACCOMMODATIONS Please let us know how we can help make your visit 44 with us a spectacular one. 52 GETTING HERE 54 RELOCATION 3 WWW.VISITWINSTONSALEM.COM A CITY FOR ALL seasons e Historic Gardens In Winston-Salem, spring showers bring gorgeous garden blooms, one of Spring the nation’s largest Easter sunrise services and an international fi lm festival. ow do you know spring has vegetable to container gardening. begins hours before sunrise. At 2 a.m. sprung in Winston-Salem? Developed in the early 1900s, Reynolda on Easter Sunday, bands from Salem If the peony tree in Old Gardens boasts 125 acres of woodlands, Congregation play throughout the city to Salem’s Levering Garden is elds and wetlands, plus a four-acre formal awaken citizens and remind them of the day’s blooming, you’re in luck. garden and 1913 greenhouse. Springtime religious signi cance. e bands make their Old Salem’s gardens date back to 1766. owers here include azaleas and lilies, way back to Home Moravian Church, where HToday, visitors can tour and admire bushes of and May is prime time for blooms in thousands gather at sunrise. fragrant rosemary, white fences covered with the East Rose Garden. Another must for e RiverRun International Film Festival Carolina yellow Jessamine, Cherokee roses, springtime visitors: the rose garden at (April 17-26, 2015) is one of the city’s most dainty violets and more. Take home a piece historic Tanglewood Park, where Hybrid popular events. is annual fest screens more of Old Salem’s gardens during the Heirloom Tea, Floribunda and Shrub roses ourish. than 100 feature and short lms from across Plant Sale (April – September). In nearby Kernersville, the seven-acre Paul the world. Each year, RiverRun awards a Many of the city’s other gardens have deep J. Ciener Botanical Garden boasts the area’s Master of Cinema tribute to an outstanding roots, too. Nestled in Historic Bethabara largest spring ower bulb display. actor or lmmaker, and more than 50 Park is their Medicine Garden, the oldest Easter Sunday may be the uno cial start entertainment industry professionals gather well—documented medical herb garden to spring, but there’s nothing uno cial about in Winston-Salem for the event. RiverRun, in the country dating back to 1761, along the way Winston-Salem celebrates. A local one of the country’s fastest-growing regional with one of the nation’s only known colonial tradition since 1772, the Easter Sunrise lm fests, also features lm premieres, family community gardens. e park’s Spring Service (Sunday, April 5, 2015) at Old matinees, post-screening Q&As, panel Garden Lecture Series covers topics from Salem’s Home Moravian Church actually discussions, parties and more. 4 WWW.VISITWINSTONSALEM.COM Summerhe city hosts two back-to-back Foothills Brewing (their crisp Carolina Children’s Museum o ers hands-on fun with wine festivals: North Carolina Blonde is a great summer beer). Enroll in exhibits like the outdoor KALEIDOSCAPE. Wine Festival (May 23, “Beer School” to learn about their brewing is vividly-colored crocheted, climbing 2015) and Salute! e North process, tour the brewery, and sample all wonder is the rst in the U.S. by artist Carolina Wine Celebration their suds. Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam. (May 30, 2015). e NC Wine Fest brings What better way to spend a summer In the City of Arts & Innovation, art Tmore than 30 local wineries and live music night than at the ball eld? Downtown’s galleries and museums abound. Spend a to Tanglewood Park, while Salute! takes BB&T Ballpark, home to the minor league leisurely afternoon browsing the modern over downtown Winston-Salem with food Winston-Salem Dash, features reworks after o erings at Southeastern Center for and wine pairings by local chefs, cooking every Friday game. Splurge a little and book Contemporary Arts (SECCA). demonstrations and more. a climate-controlled luxury suite for you and Down the street, Reynolda House Museum If these two wine festivals leave you 30 of your closest friends. of American Art hosts weekly Cinema Under thirsting for more, it’s just a 20-minute drive Playing indoors can be just as much fun. the Stars each August. Watch classic movies to Yadkin Valley wine country. Cool o by All ages will enjoy a trip to SciWorks, named under starlight while picnicking on the lawn sipping vino in a barrel room at many of the one of the country’s top 25 kids’ science of this historic 1917 estate. area’s more than 35 wineries. museums by Parents magazine. Relish the Back downtown, try a cold-one at cool, starry stillness of the Planetarium. e Summertime in Winston-Salem means long, sunny days with lots of ways to play outdoors. Want to beat the heat? There are plenty of ways to do that, too! Winston-Salem surrounded by natural beauty Home of the Winston-Salem Dash Old Salem Downtown Winston-Salem Festival 5 As temperatures fall and the air turns crisp, celebrate Fall autumn’s arrival with these events and activities. hen Moravians before heading to Winkler Bakery for a slice Fall also means the Dixie Classic Fair (October arrived in Bethabara of apple-spice pound cake. 3 – 12, 2014). A crowd pleaser for more than Park in 1753, they ere are plenty of other places around 130 years, the 10-day event o ers everything immediately planted Winston-Salem to check out fall foliage, from deep-fried Oreos to apple trees.