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Downtown Greensboro offers entertainment opportunities and delightful strolls in a growing hub of urban activity. You'll find dozens of restaurants, new boutiques, The Carolina Theatre, The Cultural Arts Center, The Children's Museum, The Historical Museum, War Memorial Stadium, and a cadre of antique stores. Old Greensboro consists of about 5 blocks downtown that overflow with antiques shops, bookstores, and restaurants, and is home to the Civil Rights Museum. Downtown comes alive throughout the year with street festivals, Fun Fourth, fund raisers and the community arts.

Greensboro has plenty to offer the sports fan. The Greensboro Bats, a Class A farm club of the Florida Marlins, play at the downtown War Memorial Stadium. While you might not imagine the South as a hotbed of hockey talent, The Greensboro Generals attract fans to their games at the 23,000 seat Greensboro Coliseum. Football fans cheer on the Greensboro Prowlers Arena Football team and even make the short drive to Charlotte to root for the NFL's Carolina Panthers. A major annual sporting event is the PGA's Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic, held at the Forest Oaks Country Club each spring. If you happen to be a duffer yourself, you'll enjoy the numerous courses throughout the area. Don't miss the championship course and the players course just north of town at Bryan Park, a beautiful municipal park.

Greensboro boasts an active arts community. The historic Carolina Theatre, which retains all of its1927 splendor, hosts productions from local and touring stage groups and the Cinema Society's monthly series of classic films. Greensboro is also home to the nation's oldest continually operating dinner theatre, the Barn Dinner Theatre. War Memorial Auditorium bustles with national Broadway tours, Greensboro Opera, Greensboro Symphony, Children's Theatre and a delightful assortment of headline entertainers and performers.

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The Bog Garden provides trails for viewing a variety of wetland flora, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers and fern species that thrive in wetland ecosystems. It’s also a great place for viewing wetland wildlife, such as migratory and indigenous birds. Bog Garden Corner of Hobbs Road and Starmount Farms Drive
Greensboro, NC 336-373-2199

Greensboro Arboretum was completed as a partnership between Greensboro Beautiful and the Greensboro Parks & Recreation Department. Visitors can enjoy 17 acres which include 12 permanent plant collections and special display gardens, structural features including a fountain, a scenic overlook, arbor, gazebo, bridges, and benches.
Greensboro Arboretum W. Market Street at Lindley Park Greensboro, NC
336-373-2199

Blandwood Mansion and Gardens was the home of former North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead that today is serving as a museum of national architectural and historical significance. It is the earliest example of Tuscan Italianate architecture in the nation, and was designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis.

The Bicentennial Garden was developed in 1976 to commemorate the United States national bicentennial. It contains 1.25 miles of paved trails with scenic vistas and a variety of seasonal and annual plants, flowers, and shrubs. There is also a pavilion available for outdoor weddings. Corner of Cornwallis Drive and Hobbs Road Greensboro, NC 336-373-2199

Greensboro Center City Park opened on December 1, 2006 and occupies a half city block adjacent to the Greensboro Cultural Center. It is open to the public for day-to-day use and for events and performances. The park features a fountain as well as works by several North Carolina artists.

The Greensboro Coliseum Complex is a multi-building facility that provides athletic events, cultural arts, concerts, theater, and other entertainment, educational activities, fairs, exhibits, conventions, convocations, trade and consumer shows. The Greensboro Coliseum Complex has hosted the ACC Tournament, ECHL and AHL hockey, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League played at the Greensboro Coliseum while a new coliseum was being constructed in Raleigh. Since 1959, the Coliseum has featured superstars from Elvis to Ushers. It will host the 2010 ACC Basketball Tournaments (men's and women's). Several renovations have brought the maximum arena capacity to its current 23,500. A proposal is underway to build the ACC Hall of Champions and Museum next to the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Founded in Greensboro in 1953, the ACC is currently headquartered at the Grandover Office Park in south Greensboro. Greensboro Coliseum 1921 West Lee Street Greensboro, NC 27403 Administrative Offices (336)-373-7400

Wet N’ Wild Emerald Point 3910 South Holden Road, Greensboro, NC 27405, 336-852-9721, 800-555-5900, "America's most exhilarating water park," this is the largest waterpark in the Carolinas with over 35 rides and attractions on site including drop slides, enclosed slides, tube rides, two children's areas, and a drifting lazy river.

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park commemorates the Battle of Guilford Court House, fought on March 15, 1781. The British lost a substantial number of troops at the battle, a factor in their surrender at Yorktown seven months later. The site is basically undeveloped and features stone memorials erected early in the twentieth century to honor the event. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park 2332 New Garden Road Greensboro, NC 27410-2355

The Natural Science Center of Greensboro is a hands-on science museum with planetarium. There’s also a zoo that underwent renovations and re-opened in 2007. 4301 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro, NC 27455 (336) 288-3769

Legacy/Demonstration Garden A one acre demonstration site was started in 1990 by reclaiming a vacant overgrown field. Master Gardeners with the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service, using donated materials from corporations and individuals have created a variety of garden demonstrations that offer the general public a hands-on learning classroom. Cooperative Extension Center 3309 Burlington Road Greensboro, NC
336-375-5876

Greensboro Children's Museum 220 North Church Street, Greensboro, NC 27401, 336-574-2898, An exciting and colorful children's museum that is filled with many different hands-on exhibits and activities that educate children by utilizing fun activities.

Celebration Station 4315 Big Tree Way, Greensboro, NC 27409, 336-316-0606, 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. Birthday and group party packages are available.

Greensboro Cultural Center at Festival Park 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro, NC 27405, 336-373-2712, An architectural showplace that is home to 15 visual and performing arts organizations plus features five art galleries, a sculpture garden, an outdoor amphitheater, rehearsal halls, and a restaurant with outdoor cafe style seating.

 

Shopping

There are a wide variety of retail options in Greensboro, from well known national chains to local boutiques. Among the more major shopping centers are Four Seasons Town Centre and Friendly Center. Located on the city’s southwest side just off 1-40, Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-level regional mall. Friendly Center is located off Friendly Avenue. It’s an open-air shopping center featuring Belk, Macy’s Sears, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, the nation’s largest Harris Teeter supermarket, Old Navy, a multi-plex cinemar, and over 100 specialty retailers such as Brooks Brothers and Banana Republic.

 

Sports

The Greensboro Revolution is Greensboro’s member of the National Indoor Football League. They play in the Greensboro Coliseum. As part of the United Soccer Development League, the Carolina Dynamo plays in Macpherson Stadium. And the Greensboro Grasshoppers is a minor league baseball team which has served as the farm team of the Florida Marlins since 2003. They are a Class A team in the South Atlantic League.

First Horizon Park is home of the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball club. Other outdoor events are hosted there during the summer.

GYS Bryan Park Complex is home to the Greensboro Dynamo and Greensboro Youth Soccer. It has 17 turf fields.

The World War Memorial Stadium was one of the nation's oldest continuously used baseball venues before it was abandoned for First Horizon Stadium in 2005. The stadium was constructed in 1926 as a perpetual memorial to lives lost during the first World War. It anchors the Aycock Historic District, and remains used by college ball clubs, amateur leagues, and other special events throughout the year. It was once home to the Greensboro Bats, Until First Horizon Park was built and the team became the Greensboro Grasshoppers.