Surrounding Areas of Interest
Mint Museum - art
Latta Plantation - Charlotte
Lowes Motor Speedway (Charlotte)
Race City USA, Mooresville, NC
Carowinds Paramount Theme Park
Richard Petty Driving School and Richard Petty Museum
Dennis Carpenter Reproduction Ford Part
Holman and Moody Shop
N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer, N.C. Railroad, maintenance, shops, cars round house and train rides.
Old Salem - Winston Salem
Reynolds home - Winston Salem
Grier Beam Truck Museum - 15 Trucks dating 1932 to current (Carolina Freight Company, Cherryville, NC)
Kings Mountain National Military Park - Kings Mountain
Furniture markets - Hickory and Lexington
National Civil War Cemetery - Salisbury, NC
Hendrick Motor Sports
Blue Ridge Mountain & Parkway - 2 hours away
N.C. & S.C. Beaches 4 to 6 hours away
Biltmore House - George Vanderbilt, largest home in America.
Asheville, N.C
Air Museum (Charlotte)
Guilford County Court House Battlegrounds
Alamance Battleground
Cherokee Indian Reservation
Smokey Mountain National Park
Rapture Center - Helping wild life to return home
Hezekiah Alexander Homesite
Rosedale Plantation
James K. Polk Memorial, Pineville, NC
Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
Backing up Classic, Inc. Harrisburg, NC
Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium, Gastonia, NC
Gaston County Museum of Art and History, Carriage Museum - Dallas, NC
Fieldcrest Cannon Textile - Cannon Village
Lincoln County Museum of History
Lake Norman - Catawba Queen River Boat
Discovery Place - Charlotte
Airborne Museum - Fort Bragg, NC
Lowes Motor Speedway
Folk Art Center - Asheville
Museum of the Waxhaws, Andrew Jackson Memorial
SPORTS: Bobcats NBA, Panthers NFL, Hurricanes Hockey, Knights Baseball 3A, NASCAR Hall of Fame.  For more info contact Charlotte Convention & Visitors Bureau www.charlottecvb.org, 704-334-2282.