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A North Carolina Vacation Rental rented through VRResNetwork.com offers a stay of a lifetime that will be filled with culture and arts, history, festivals, fine dining, outdoor recreation, entertainment, and a lot more.
Children and adults can get their hands on some educational fun at any of North Carolina’s hands-on museums. Asheville’s Colburn Gem and Mineral Museum features minerals from all over. See a 2,405-carat opal boulder from Australia and many other fascinating precious gemstones in the museum’s varied collection. With a flick of a switch, see how various minerals glow bright colors when subjected to ultraviolet light. Make your own volcano or move continents and see how the earth transforms. Let the kids become set designers and actors at Greensboro’s Green Hill Center, where ArtQuest provides an interactive children’s gallery with workshops and art activities. The Discovery Place, in Charlotte, is considered one of the top hands-on museums in the country featuring exotic plants and birds, small animals, waterfalls, and extensive rock formations. Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington will put you in close sight of a 15-foot-tall prehistoric giant ground sloth skeleton. Then walk around and experience the feel of cotton, animal skins, and many more sensory-integrated exhibits, even design your own money. And here also, Michael Jordan fans will enjoy the gallery displaying Jordan memorabilia, including his first paycheck and one of his UNC uniforms.
North Carolina is also known for its motor sports. Enthusiasts here will race anything with an engine. Visit the Checker Flag Lightning Featuring NASCAR Silicon Motor Speedway, in Concord Mills, as it is home of the world’s most realistic racing simulators. Friends can race each other in 750-horsepower NASCAR stock cars traveling at speeds of up to 200 mph. In Kannapolis, take a self-guided tour of landmarks relating to Dale Earnhardt’s life and NASCAR career. Walk through the neighborhood where he was raised and cruised as a teenager, and see the 9-foot bronze statue that his hometown erected in his memory. For some off-road excitement, take a Mountain Adventure Off-Road Jeep Tour in Murphy. Have a blast as you engage in some of the best off-roading that the East has to offer. The tours will move you up into the mountains, through river crossings, rock gardens, and scenic back country. Families will also enjoy the Minneapolis Grand Prix in Maggie Valley, where there’s entertainment for everyone. Here you can bring a picnic and enjoy any of the 4 tracks: Family, Nascar, Rookie Roll, and Jr. Racer.
North Carolina’s great outdoors invites you to hike a mile-high mountain, hang glide off a four-story sand dune, and kayak a tranquil lake. Fish for all varieties of trout or see it all from above in one of the many companies that offer balloon rides over parts of this beautiful and picturesque country.
Let yourself be entertained at many venues that offer outdoor musical concerts and dramas. “Horn in the West” Historical Outdoor Drama in Boone, is a tale of triumph and tragedy about Daniel Boone and the settlers of America in their journey westward. Enjoy as you sit outdoors surrounded by majestic 200-year-old oak trees. “Unto These Hills” in Cherokee, offers a spectacular outdoor drama portraying the history of the Cherokee Indians covering the period of 1540 up to the removal of all but a remnant of Indian Territory in Oklahoma in 1838. There’s so much to see and do in North Carolina no matter where you decide to plan that special family vacation, sports or festival weekend, or just to get away for a few days to unwind. So give